Big Red is one of the most powerful university-owned computers in the US. Part of a comprehensive strategy to build an advanced cyberinfrastructure to support research at Indiana University, Big Red has a theoretical peak performance of more than 40 teraflops, and has achieved more than 21 teraflops on numerical computations.

The Data Capacitor is a high speed/high bandwidth storage system for research computing that serves all IU campuses and NSF TeraGrid Users. At peak performance, the Data Capacitor has a 14.5 gigabyte per second aggregate transfer rate per second.

Quarry provides a general-purpose Unix computing environment for academic and instructional use. IU's newest supercomputer, Quarry is an IBM HS21 Bladeserver cluster running Red Hat Linux, with TORQUE (also called PBS) and Moab for job management and SoftEnv to simplify application and environment configuration. Quarry is a 26 teraflop system consisting of IBM HS21 blades and dx340 iDataPlex servers.

Mason is a large memory computer cluster configured to support data-intensive high-performance computing tasks for IU researchers. Mason consists of 16 Hewlett Packard DL580 servers, each containing four Intel Xeon L7555 8-core processors and 512 GB of RAM. The total RAM in the system is 8 TB. Each server chassis has a 10-gigabit Ethernet connection that connects to the other research systems at IU. The Mason nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0. Job management is provided by the TORQUE resource manager (also called PBS) and the Moab job scheduler. The Modules system is used to simplify application and environment configuration. Mason is intended for use by IU researchers (including faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and research staff), and is also available to IU students using genome assembly software (particularly software suitable for assembly of data from next-generation sequencers), large-scale phylogenetic software, or other genome analysis applications requiring large amounts of computer memory. IU educators providing instruction on genome analysis software, and developers of such software, are also welcome to use Mason.

The Research Database Complex (RDC) is dedicated to research-related databases and data-intensive applications that require a database. Oracle and MySQL databases are supported, and the default database size is 15MB. The RDC also provides an environment for database-driven web applications with a research focus. This system, rdcweb.uits.iu.edu, runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Rockhopper cluster is a distributed memory computer cluster configured to support on-demand high-performance computing tasks for IU researchers. Rockhopper consists of 11 Penguin Computing Altus 1804 servers, each containing four AMD Opteron 6172 12-core processors and 128 GB of RAM. The total RAM in the system is 1.5 TB. Each server chassis has a QDR (40 Gb/s) InfiniBand interconnect to the cluster's switch fabric, which is then connected via four trunked 10 Gb/s Ethernet links to IU's network infrastructure. The Rockhopper nodes run CentOS 5. Job management and scheduling are provided by the Sun Grid Engine (SGE) resource manager (also called PBS). The Modules system is used to simplify application and environment configuration. Users may log into the cluster via SSH, using their Penguin POD user IDs. Rockhopper is intended for use by researchers at US institutions of higher education and federally-funded research centers.