Our Computing Systems

High Performance Computing Clusters

Bouchet

Our first installation at MGHPCC is a new HPC cluster called Bouchet. The cluster is now in production. Currently, its approximately 4,000 direct-liquid-cooled cores are dedicated to tightly coupled parallel workflows, such as those run in the “mpi” partition on the Grace cluster. We are actively working on acquiring general-purpose compute and GPU nodes, which will expand access to all Yale researchers whose computational work involves low-risk data. 

The cluster is named for Edward Bouchet, born and raised in New Haven, CT, and the first self-identified African American to earn a doctorate from an American university, a PhD in physics at Yale University in 1876.

Grace 

Grace is a cluster available for shared use by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). It is our largest and most versatile cluster, consisting of various compute nodes connected through low-latency InfiniBand and several shared storage filesystems. 

The cluster is named after Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist who earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale in 1934 and made trailblazing contributions to developing computer languages as one of the first three modern “programmers.” 

Hopper 

Hopper is a shared-use resource for all researchers at Yale University for high performance computation of ePHI, NIH Controlled-Access Data, CUI and certain other types of sensitive data. Hopper consists of a variety of standard compute and GPU-enabled nodes and mounts an encrypted shared filesystem. 

The Hopper cluster is named for the computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, who received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale in 1934.

McCleary 

McCleary is a shared-use resource for the Yale School of Medicine(YSM), life science researchers across disciplines, and projects associated with the Yale Center for Genome Analysis. It comprises various compute nodes networked over ethernet and linked to several shared storage filesystems. Yale’s first direct-to-chip liquid-cooled cluster is paving the way for a more sustainable future for the YCRC and the Yale research computing community. 

The cluster is named after Beatrix McCleary Hamburg, the first female African American Yale School of Medicine graduate in 1948, whose long career in academic medicine advanced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. 

Milgram 

Milgram compute nodes and its dedicated storage system are specifically designed to process and store sensitive data. In addition to resources available to all Yale researchers, Milgram has dedicated partitions and storage for the Yale Psychology Department. 

The cluster is named after Dr. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist and Yale professor whose work focused on the behavioral motivations behind social awareness in individuals and obedience to authority figures. It is still widely studied today.

Misha

Misha is a cluster of various types of compute nodes designed explicitly for interdisciplinary research projects at the Wu Tsai Institute. The Institute is a new initiative to bring neuroscience and data science together to advance the understanding of human cognition. 

The cluster is named after Dr. Misha Mahowald, an American computational neuroscientist who was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame for her development of the Silicon Eye and other computational systems in neuromorphic engineering. 

High Performance Storage

Along with the compute clusters, YCRC designs and maintains multiple high performance storage systems, allowing the community to store their research data securely.

Learn more about YCRC-managed shared filesystems and the clusters where they are available. 

To obtain additional short- and long-term data storage, consider purchasing options and contact our team to discuss the most suitable storage solutions.