Computational Mechanics Laboratory
(ERC 474)

The computational facilities available to the students are available in several laboratories. In addition, campus wide facilities maintained both the the College of Engineering and Information Technology are available for educational and research purposes.

ERC470 (Main Facility)
(1) CML Cluster: 25-node (1 head node plus 24 compute nodes) cluster with a typical node as Dell Poweredge 1750 (Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 18 GB SCSI hard disk) connected via Dell PowerConnect 2624 Switch (running Red Hat Linux Fedora, Oscar Cluster Controller).

      
(2) Intel FEM cluster: Cluster with 8 Dell Precision 530 Workstations (Dual-Processor Pentium 4 1.7 GHz Xeon CPUs) with 1 GB RAM each (running Microsoft Windows 2000) connected via Intel Gigabit NICs and Cisco Catalyst 3550-12T Gigabit switch . The switch can handle a total of 10 connections. Intel has donated 6 of the 8 machines.
 


Click here to view papers on high-performance computations.
The clusters ares being used to develop parallel-processing software using C++, FORTRAN, MPI and OpenMP languages and libraries.

(2) 1 HP zx2000 Workstation: Itanium 2 1.5 GHz machine running Windows XP 64-bit 2003 and Red Hat Advanced 64-bit Linux. This is the one of fastest workstations available today.
(3) 1 Dell Precision 360 Workstation: Pentium 4 3.2 GHz system running Windows XP.
(4) 1 Dell Precision 360 Workstation: Pentium 4 3.2 GHz system running Windows 2000.
(5) 1 Dell Precision 360 Workstation: Pentium 4 2.8 GHz system running Windows 2000.
(6) 1 Dell Precision 340 Workstation: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system running Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux.
(7) 1 HP Workstation: Pentium 4 2 GHz system running Windows 2000.
(8) 1 Dell Precision 340 Workstation: Pentium 4 1.8 GHz system running Windows 2000.
(9) 1 Dell Precision 340 Workstation: Pentium 4 1.7 GHz system running Windows 2000.
(10) 1 HP 6300 scanner
(11) 1 HP Laserjet 6 printer
(12) 1 HP Laserjet 4 printer

Software (for Microsoft© Windows environment)
Microsoft Visual Studio
Intel C++ and FORTRAN compilers for Windows and Linux
Compaq FORTRAN compiler
MSTI MPI-Pro library
ANSYS Finite Element program
ABAQUS Finite Element program
PATRAN Modeling system
LS-DYNA Finite Element program
AUTOCAD Modeling system
SOLIDWORKS Modeling system
Coreldraw
Corel Photopaint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Frontpage
Maple
Matlab
Adobe Acrobat
Macromedia Director

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