Building a Fountain of Knowledge

“It was crucial to have a strategic partnership and alliance with a reputable, dependable, responsible and capable partner, and that is just what Dell is for Texas Tech University.”

-Dr. Katherine Austin, assistant vice president, Texas Tech University. United States

Texas Tech needed to build a new high performance computing (HPC) cluster to attract top-name researchers, accelerate research efforts with the fastest technology, and help fulfill its mission to be in the top tier of Texas research universities.

The university deployed an HPC solution with Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  servers running Rocks Cluster Distribution software on CentOS Linux operating system with InfiniBand high-speed interconnects. Dell ProManage Services deployed and installed the cluster in only three weeks.

• Get IT Faster: 3-week installation of cluster with Dell ProManage Services; leveraged existing Dell Strategic Partnership to order and receive equipment expeditiously
• Run IT Better: 4x to 16x faster research results compared to previous cluster; 20 teraflops of computing power; up to 100% utilization
• Grow IT Smarter; Ability to attract top name researchers and $4 million annually in research grants