(3/20/2013 UPDATE:  The JAZZ HPC Storage Cluster was also awarded and has been added to this artice.)

In November 2012, the Office of the Provost identified one-time (nonrecurring) funds to refresh existing and outdated instructional laboratory equipment on campus.  TSO submitted three, prioritized proposals to refresh CoC's oldest instructional lab equipment (see below):

Through a Techfee grant, TSO has upgraded the BAIRD cluster to 20, Supermicro desktops, Intel Xeon X3430 (4-core) CPUs, 16GB RAM, 120GB solid state drives (SSD), nVidia GTX550 TI graphics cards and 24" LCD monitors.

Through a Techfee grant, TSO has upgraded the SHUTTLES cluster to 5, SuperMicro servers, dual socket, 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5620 (4-core) CPUs, 24GB RAM, and dual 80GB solid state disk drives (SSD).  The OS on all SHUTTLES nodes is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8.  The SHUTTLES cluster is available to all CoC faculty and students, as well as any student enrolled in a CS course.   Use your GT credentials to access the cluster.