General Infomation Concerning the Clusters within Three Departments
This documentation includes the description of a cluster for Chemistry and High Energy Theory in the Physics department and a cluster for Geological Sciences.
Chemistry and HET
ted.hetchem.brown.edu is the cluster for the Chemistry and HET. It's use is split between four research groups. The research groups for Prof. Jim Doll and Prof. Richard Stratt at Brown University and for Prof. David Freeman at the University of Rhode Island use 16 of the compute nodes. The HET group includes the research groups of Prof. Gerry Guralnik, Prof. Ian Del'Antonio and Prof. Marcus Spradlin. They have access to 5 compute nodes. Chemistry Department is using two nodes for running Gaussian 03 and other research software.
The Chemistry-HET Cluster is an SGI Altrix XE 1300. Each blade has four quad-core CPUs except for the latest addition to the HET group. compute-0-35 is quad core with each core having six CPUs. This gives 128 cores to the Doll-Stratt-Freeman group, 16 processors to the remaining members of the Chemistry Department and 56 processors for the HET group.
Geological Sciences
micah.geo.brown.edu, the cluster for the Department of Geological Sciences will be used by the students and colleagues of Prof. Marc Parmentier, Prof. Karen Fischer, Prof. Donald Forsyth and Prof. Yang Liang.
The cluster for Geological Sciences consists of 18 Atipa SC812L+520B Opteron Dual CPUs which are dual core or 72 processors. The system also has two dual-core RAID servers.
ted, the cluster for Chemistry & HET
micah, the cluster for Geological Sciences
Margaret Doll 4-6-2012