Facilities

Lab Computers

In the lab space we have a slew of workstations used for development and visualization (via commodity graphic cards). These machines are all 2.4 or 2.6 ghz based dell workstations each with 1 gigabyte of ram and all run Linux (Fedora Core 1). For compilation we have both the current gcc available but have primarily stuck with the latest Intel research compilers (link) for numerical work.

Sodium and Lithium

In the lab we have also made available through a generous contribution from Sun Microsystems, a 2 processor, 2 gigabyte Sun Blade 2000 running Solaris for both numerical work and for 3D visualization. In addition to this workstation, we have available a sun v880, with consists of a 4 processor, 8 gigabyte SMP and a terabyte of fiber based storage which we use primarily for numerical work.

Uranium : A Linux Based Beowulf Cluster

Uranium currently consists of 44 dual processor nodes, each of which are dual Xeon 2.66 GHz chips "glued" together with gigabit ethernet.

The master has about a 1/2 terabyte of storage space and 2 gigs of ram, while each of the client nodes have a 80 gigabyte drives each and 1 gigabyte of ram each.

Currently we are using the OSCAR based clustering tools (link please) with PBS/Maui supplying the queue management infrastructure on top of redhat 8.

Cluster Documentation