The Computational Core
Facility at SCSB provides
state-of-the-art computational resources to researchers and students
who are in needs of extreme computing power. The power house of the
Core is a 30 processor Linux cluster, which provides
parallel-processing
capabilities with
total of 84 billions floating point operations per second, 40 GB of
distributed
memory and 1.6 TB of total storage space. The cluster also provides
centralized file-server
capabilities as well as a tape library with 400 GB of storage space to
archive and secure data. In addition, the facility includes over 10
single and
multi-processor workstations, which includes SGI O2s,
Intel/AMD based dual processor Linux computers, laptops, PCs and Macs
and
it brings Core's
total computing power to more than 120 gigaflops. The peripheral
devices
include scanner, printers, color printers and tape drives. All
computing
resources are connected to UTMB network, and thus other workstations
within the
campus can easily access the resources of the Core.
Computers
- Gibbs (photo) 129.109.59.101 Linux Cluster running
RedHat 8.0
- Master
Node and Nodes 1-9:
- CPU: 20 Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz 32
bit processors
- Memory:
2 GB/blade (node 9 has 4GB) = 22 GB
- Disk
Space:
- Master
Node: 340 GB "5-Disk RAID" Drive
- External
Seagate FreeAgent Hard Drive: 458 GB (mounted as
/mnt/backup_usr)
- Nodes
1-9: 18 GB/blade = 162 GB
- Nodes
10-14:
- CPU: 10 Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz
32 bit processors
- Memory:
4 GB/blade = 20 GB
- Disk
Space: 51 GB/blade = 255 GB
- Fermi (photo)
129.109.59.107
- Two
Dual-Core Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz 64 bit processors, 4GB memory, Red Hat
Enterprise 2.6
- External
Seagate Pushbutton Backup Hard Drive: 400Gb
- 5 Linux 2
cpu, 64 bit processor workstations
- Planck (photo) 129.109.59.103
- Dual
Intel Xeon 3.0GHz processors, 3.88 GB memory, Red Hat Enterprise 2.4
- Pauli (photo) 129.109.59.102
- Dual
Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz processors, 2.0 GB memory, Red Hat Enterprise 3
- External
Seagate FreeAgent Hard Drive: 500 GB (mounted as /mnt/backup_usr)
- ATI
Radeon X1600XT PCI Express graphics card installed Sept. 2007.
- Joule (photo) 129.109.59.114
- Dual AMD
Opteron 248 2.2GHz processors, 4GB memory, Fedora Core 4
- Bohr (photo) 129.109.59.104
- Dual AMD
Opteron 246 1.99 GHz processors, 3.5 GB memory, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- TYAN
Thunder Motherboard (photo)
- ATI
Radeon X1300 Pro graphics card installed Nov 2007.
- Carnot (photo) 129.109.59.115
- Dual
AMD Opteron 2.0 GHz processors, 3.5 GB memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5
- External
Seagate Free Agent Hard Drive: 250Gb
- 3 Linux Intel Xeon, 32
bit processor workstations
- Curie
(photo) 129.109.59.109
- Dual
Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz 32 bit processors, 2 GB memory, Fedora Core 9.0
- External
'Western Digital' Hard Drive: 250GB
- Diamond
ATI Radeon 9250 PCI graphics card installed Nov 2007.
- Boyle (photo) 129.109.59.216
- Dual
Intel Xeon 1.7 GHz 32 bit processors, 1GB memory, Fedora Core
- Feynman
(photo) 129.109.59.111
- Intel
Xeon 2.8 GHz 32 bit processor, 2 GB memory, Fedora Core 4
- External
Seagate Free Agent Hard Drive: 250Gb
- 2 Linux P4
2.6 GHz single processor workstations
- Bose
(photo) 129.109.59.112
- Intel
Pentium IV 2.6 GHz 32 bit processor, 1 GB memory, Fedora Core 9
- Landau
(photo) 129.109.59.110
- Intel
Pentium IV 2.6 GHz 32 bit processor, 1 GB memory, Fedora Core
- Born
(photo) 129.109.59.108
- Intel
Pentium III 32 bit processor, 1 GB memory, Linux SUSE
- Newton: 129.109.59.105 (photo) and Dirac: 129.109.59.106 (photo)
- 2 SGI Indigo
workstations. OS: IRIX 6.5.18 (R10K processors)
-
5 PC
workstations (Windows 2000/XP)
-
4 laptop
PCs (Window 2000/XP)
- Additional External
Hard Drives Include:
- Werner:
Windows
XP:
Western Digital Hard Drive: 320GB
- Cathy:
Windows
XP:
Western Digital Hard Drive: 250GB
- David:
Windows XP:
Western Digital Hard Drive: 320GB
- Numan:
Windows XP: LaCie Hard Drive: 500GB
- Chen:
UNIX: External
Seagate Free Agent Hard Drive: 250GB
- Schein
Group: UNIX: External
Seagate Free Agent Hard Drive: 250Gb
Peripherals
- Lexmark
T640 B/W Laser Printer (not networked; Dr. Braun's printer)
Other
Equipment
Software
Scientific
Applications
("In-house"
and from outside):
- GETAREA (Protein
solvent
accessible surface area calculation)
- FANTOM (Protein
energy refinement)
- MASIA (Multiple aligned
sequences investigation and analysis)
- MPACK (Protein
structure predication package)
- PCPMer (Software tool for automated motif
detections of a protein family)
- NOAH/DIAMOD (Automated NMR
protein structure determination)
- SDAP (Online
Data
mining of genomic databases for allergenic
determinants)
Scientific
Applications
(General):
- FFTW (Fast fourier transform C
library)
- LAPACK (Matrix
solver math library)
- AMBER (MD
simulations for single and parallel processors)
- Gaussian 2003 (Molecular Orbital
calculations for single and parallel processors)
- FELIX (NMR data
processing, floating license)
- MatLab
(Linux and PC, floating license) with Bioinformatics Toolbox etc.
- InsightII
(Molecular
modeling tools from Accelrys)
Programming
Language
- MPICH (parallel
programming tool/FORTRAN)
- LMPI
(parallel
programming tool library)
- PVM (parallel
programming tool)
- POOMA (parallel programming tool/C++)
PC
Software
- FELIX
(NMR data processing)
- Mathematica Mathematical
tools (PC version. Personal copy is available if you needed)
- MatLab Mathematical tools
(numerical etc)
(PC version, floating license) with Bioinformatics Toolbox etc.
- Sigma Plot
(Personal copy is available if you needed)
- StudioQuartet
(Ulead software for movie making, 3D animation, DVD burning etc)
