Facilities

High Performance Computer Research Cluster (Arcturus)

156 total compute/GPU nodes and 2 login nodes

30 GPU nodes - each containing two CPUs with 20 cores each for a total of 40 cores, 384GB RAM, and each including one V100 Nvidia GPU accelerator
5 GPU nodes - each containing two CPUs with 20 cores each for a total of 40 cores, 384GB RAM, and each including two V100 Nvidia GPU accelerators
2 GPU nodes – each containing 4 V100 GPUs and two CPUs that are Intel Xeon Gold 6248, 20C each
Two large-memory nodes, each containing four CPUs with 20 cores each for a total of 80 cores, and each including 1.5TB of RAM
Total TFlops across CPUs and GPUs: 387
6032 total CPU cores on compute and GPU nodes
100Gb/s Infiniband storage network connectivity
DDN fault-tolerant storage array with 1PB of shared storage utilizing the Lustre file system
A cumulative total of 250TB of local scratch space spread evenly among each physical compute node

Dell Precision 7920 Tower Workstation

NHERI DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure

The NSF Funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure. DesignSafe offers unprecedented access to collaboration, data storage and sharing, access to high performance computing, and potential for integrated data analysis for the NHERI community.

UTSA Large-Scale Testing Laboratory

The Large-Scale Testing Laboratory is a 50-foot tall steel facility that provides a space of 15,000 square foot where civil engineering students can build and test structural systems in a large and realistic setting.
This building has a 40x80 foot reaction floor that provides our researchers with the ability to test real-size structural systems and components. The reaction floor thickness ranges from three feet to five feet thick, and provides the capability to apply test loads up to four million pounds of force, making portions of the the floor the strongest in the nation.
This new facility gives UTSA the capacity to test large-scale systems and components with spans of up to 70 feet. The laboratory also has dual cranes with 30-ton capacity to load, unload, and transport heavy specimens.
Within in the laboratory is housed a large-capacity Hydraulic Power Supply and high-pressure distribution lines with access manifolds in the service chase that facilitate the use of servo-controlled actuators anywhere in the test floor. The Hydraulic Power Supply and distribution system provide the ability for civil and structural engineering researchers to simulate a wide range of issues including high cycle fatigue, earthquakes, and blast loads.