Mississippi State University HPC2 — Malcolm A. Portera High Performance Computing Center
Mississippi State University (High Performance Computing Collaboratory) · Starkville, MS · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 2 Research Boulevard
- Coordinates
- 33.4733639, -88.7907511
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-14
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Operational
MSU and NOAA held a ribbon-cutting for the Orion supercomputer housed at the Portera center.
Underlying source
Source notes
Academic HPC facility in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park. Houses the NOAA-funded Orion supercomputer — a Dell-EMC system described at its 2019 ribbon-cutting as 28 cabinets, 72,000 processing cores and 350 TB of RAM at 5 petaFLOPS, then the fourth-fastest system in U.S. academia. MSU separately broke ground in May 2023 on a 35,000-square-foot, $45 million High Performance Computing Data Center in the same park, expected to be finished in 2025; no cited source confirms that building's completion, so it is not listed separately as of September 2026 and no capacity is asserted for it here. Coordinates are the OpenStreetMap building point for the High Performance Computing Collaboratory at 2 Research Boulevard. Distinct site from C Spire Starkville Data Center, which is a commercial colocation facility elsewhere in the same park.
Sources and provenance
- MSU, NOAA celebrate Orion supercomputer · source retrieved 2026-09-14
- MSU breaks ground on new High Performance Computing Data Center · source retrieved 2026-09-14
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.