Dr. Dana Brunson has received funding to purchase a new supercomputer
through an NSF MRI grant. Nearly $1M was approved to purchase a new
system that will surpass the current "Cowboy" system. The new system is
tentatively named "Pistol Pete". From the NSF award website:
"Under this Major Research Instrumentation project, the Oklahoma State
University (OSU) High Performance Computing Center is engaged in
acquiring, deploying and maintaining a cluster supercomputer, named for
OSU's mascot Pistol Pete, to support computing- and data-intensive
research and research training, across a broad range of Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. As a
campus-wide shared resource, Pistol Pete's mission includes being
available at no charge not only to all OSU faculty, staff, postdocs,
graduate students and undergraduates, but also to researchers and
educators across Oklahoma. This project focuses on enabling substantial
transformative STEM research across a broad variety of disciplines."
The coPIs on the grant are Mario Borunda, Chris Fennell, Peter Hoyt, and Baski Balasundaram
