Sol power asu

What is Sol Power?

Rooted in the unlikely union of the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Valley of the Sun’s Hip Hop culture, including DJs, emcees, graffiti artists and dancers, Sol Power is an empowering opportunity to celebrate the culture and creative intelligence within communities of color.

What does Sol mean for ASU?

Sol will allow ASU to expand its suite of large-scale computing services to further advance research and learning across the university and the region. “This represents an unprecedented investment in ASU’s research computing ecosystem,” said Sally C. Morton, executive vice president of the ASU Knowledge Enterprise.

What does Sol mean for a gaming PC?

Sol will bring 18,000 state-of-the-art CPU cores to the table, not only increasing processing and computing power, but also expanding access to these resources. Sol will also add more graphical processing units, or GPUs, to Research Computing’s overall infrastructure. These aren’t the GPUs that deliver pristine graphics in a gaming PC, however.

How do researchers access Sol?

Researchers can request access to Sol via Research Computing. “Sol adds capacity, power and speed to our supercomputing infrastructure by an order of magnitude,” said Neal Woodbury, vice president and chief science and technology officer at Knowledge Enterprise.

Who funded Sol?

An initiative of Knowledge Enterprise’s Research Computing facility, Sol was funded through the Office of the President and the University Technology Office’s Information Technology Bond and co-designed by Dell Technologies.

Will Sol lighten the load on Agave?

Sol will lighten the load on Agave, which completed a record-breaking 9 million CPU-hours of computing in April 2022. Sol’s additional capacity will double that number to 18 million CPU-hours of computing when fully operational. That means each month Sol will complete the equivalent of 2,000 years’ worth of computation on a conventional computer.