As you asking I am telling Center for Computational Science (CCS) - IBM-built Pegasus (2) supercomputer came online in spring 2013, offering University of Miami researchers the ability to perform 160 trillion floating-point operations per second.

Pegasus Specs

Five Racks of iDataPlex in iDataPlex Racks

One Standard Enterprise Rack for Networking and Managment
iDataPlex dx360 M4:
– Qty (2) Intel Sandy Bridge E5-2670 (2.6 GHz)- 32 GB 1600 MHz RAM (2GB/core)
– Stateless/Diskless
– Mellanox Connect X3 Single-Port FDR
Mellanox FDR MSX6036
DNA SFA 12k
– Qty (12) 3TB 7.2K RPM SATA (RAID 6 in 8+2)
– Qty (360) 600GB 15K SAS (RAID 6 in 8+2)
– Qty (10)e 400GB MLC SSD (RAID 1 Pairs)
xCAT 2.7.x
Platform LSF
RHL 6.2 for Login/Management Nodes


Pegasus’ CPU Workhorse—The IBM iDataPlex dx360M4

Compute Nodes 350 dx360 M4 Compute Nodes
Processor Two 8-core Intel Sandy Bridge 2.6 GHz scalar, 2.33 GHz* AVX
Memory 32 GiB (2 GiB/core) using eight x 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 DIMMs
Clustering Network One FDR InifiniBand HCA
Management Network GB Ethernet NIC connected to the cluster management VLANs. IMM access shared through the eth0 port

Contact info:

ccsadministration@miami.edu
T 305.243.4962 • F 305.243.9304


CCS Administration

Nicholas Tsinoremas, Center for Computational Science

Nicholas Tsinoremas, PhD

Center Director

Gables One Tower, Room 600N

ntsinoremas@miami.edu | 305.243.4962

Evelyn Cruz, Center for Computational Science
Evelyn Cruz

Senior Manager, Business Operations

Gables One Tower, Room 600M

ecruz3@miami.edu | 305.243.7990



Sawsan Khuri, Center for Computational Science
Sawsan Khuri, PhD

Director of Engagement

Gables One Tower, Room 600J

skhuri@miami.edu | 305.243.4529


CCS Locations


white number 1 in orange circle CCS Main Offices

Gables One Tower, Suite 600
1320 S. Dixie Highway (Locator Code 2965), Coral Gables, FL 33146-2926
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University of Miami, Gables One Tower, Coral Gables, FL


white number 2 in orange circle CCS Coral Gables campus

Ungar Building, 3rd Floor
1365 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
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Ungar Building, University of Miami

Visualization Lab, Room 330D

University of Miami Center for Computational Science Ungar Building Viz Lab


White number 3 in orange circle CCS at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Biomedical Research Building
1501 NW 10th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Miami, FL 33136
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Hussman Institute for Human Genomics


white number 4 in orange circle CCS at RSMAS

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway (Locator: VK), Miami, FL 33149
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Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS)