Computational Resources

Most of our serious computational work is done off-site at one of several national supercomputing centers. However, we do maintain a large number of local machines which are used for smaller calculations and for graphical data analysis. In the next few months we will be drastically increasing our local computational capabilities as we construct a Beowulf cluster using Myrinet interconnects.

Local Resources

4 node (8 DEC/Compaq Alpha CPU's) Beowulf cluster running RedHat Linux

4 GB RAM

~200 GB disk

Alpha 21264 (EV67) 667 MHz cpu's

Myrinet 2000 interconnect

2 Alpha workstations running Digital Unix

1 SGI Octane running IRIX 6.4

1 Pentium II workstation running RedHat Linux

6 Pentium II/III workstations running Windows NT

UMAX Scanner

Output:

HP 1120c wide-format color inkjet printer

HP 2100 Postscript printer

Xerox NC60 color Postscript printer

Storage:

DAT

RW-CD ROM

Zip

Remote Resources

NCSA Origin2000

~1,500 MIPS R10000 CPUs

cc-NUMA (physically distributed, logically shared memory architecture

Located at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Our primary computational engine

Alliance RoadRunner Supercluster

128 CPU Beowulf cluster with Myrinet

Distributed memory architecture

Located at University of New Mexico

Used primarily for benchmarking

Pittsburgh Supercompter Center's Cray T3E

512 Alpha Nodes

Distributed memory architecture

Accessible via ALCOA collaboration

Local Resources

Remote Resources

Scaling Data for VASP