CRUNCH cluster upgrade doubles original computing capacity

MSL's computing cluster "CRUNCH" has recently received some hefty upgrades. Six new dual processor compute nodes were added to the original six nodes. The new processors are slightly faster and each new node has twice the RAM (128GB) of the original system nodes. CRUNCH is primarily used for: fluid-structure interaction simulations, stochastic nano-particle network modeling, artificial neural networks, machine learning, image analysis, and aero-structural optimization.