The UW's supercomputer is updated for more speed, GPU capability

UW-IT continues to enhance Hyak, the University's supercomputer, to ensure it best serves ever-growing faculty and student research needs. Upgrades include a new hardware infrastructure now underway, and recent expansions in GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) capacity. Hyak supports a broad range of workloads -- from traditional high-performance computing to data science approaches such as machine learning and other computation-heavy Big Data problems. An infrastructure update underlies Hyak's third-generation build, named "Klone." The update will improve performance even while leveraging existing standard hardware, and includes a new CPU cluster with more data storage overall, faster read/write capability and a more performant (twice as fast), cost-effective and scalable inter-networking architecture among Hyak's processors.