Montana State University launches community computing resource – The Hyalite Cluster

When Montana State University researcher Mark Owkes needs to predict the movements of millions of tiny droplets of fuel and molecules of air inside a vehicle’s combustion chamber, he needs some serious computing power.

Up until this year, Owkes, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, probably would have had to do those computations somewhere other than MSU.

But this year, the university launched an initiative to put high-speed, high-powered computing resources into the hands of every MSU researcher who needs them – without having to leave campus.

"No one thinks of us in this space right now: high-performance computing," said MSU’s Chief Information Officer Jerry Sheehan.

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