Razor
The University of Arkansas’ newest computing resource, called Razor, is enabling researchers to solve large problems faster than ever. Razor more than doubles the amount of computing resources at the university’s High Performance Computing Center. Faculty and students from several departments are using high-performance computers to explore the fundamental properties of chemicals and nanomaterials, develop new methods of detecting breast cancer and organize large sets of spatial data.
The high-performance computers can be accessed by any faculty member or student at the University of Arkansas, and by the faculty and students from other Arkansas universities that are members of the Arkansas Research and Educational Optical Network.
Razor features 126 dual hex-core processors for a total of 1512 processing cores running at 2.93GHz, with 2 gigabytes, of memory per core and more than 200 terabytes, of disk storage. Its processing speed is 17.75 teraflops.