The Scholar's Field Guide to Clemson University

Palmetto Supercomputing Cluster Clemson has a world-class, high-performance and data- intensive computing environment, known as the Palmetto Cluster , to serve the University’s wide-ranging research ne eds. Developed by Clemson Computing and Information Technology (CCIT) in collaboration with faculty researchers across the University, the Palmetto Cluster pro-vides a shared platform that optimizes resources for the benefit of all users. The Palmetto Cluster was designed to suit many different research applications and was ranked among the Top 5 most powerful computing systems at U.S. public institutions without federally- fund-ed centers (TOP500 List, November 2018). The Palmetto Cluster currently benchmarks at over 1,000 teraflops acros 23,452 cores. The Palmetto Cluster is made possible through a partnership between faculty and information technology administrators. It is available to the entire Clemson community on a first-come, first-served basis and is free of charge for general access; faculty researchers who require predictable computational availability may purchase nodes with reserved priority. Through CCIT, the University provides funding for additional nodes, hardware infrastructure and system administration to help researchers obtain competitive grants and contracts. – 26 –