Advanced Computation & Visualization
Advanced Computation
The Nuclear Engineering Division has a Beowulf cluster as its advanced computational Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data platform for performing computations of engineering mechanics, fluid dynamics, Monte Carlo simulations and engineering analyses. The cluster consists of Three front-end (i.e., control) nodes and 105 compute nodes.
Part of the Beowulf cluster
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The front-end servers have Intel Xeon processors and 4 GB of RAM. The compute
nodes have Intel Xeon processors running at 3 GHz, 2 GB's of RAM, SATA drives,
and are connected via Gigabit ethernet.
The operating system's primarily used on the cluster are Red Hat Enterprise
4/3 and Centos 4/3. The following compilers are currently running on the system:
- PGI Workstation 3.1 (F77, F90, HPF, C++, C),
- Intel Fortran,
- Absoft F90 Pro, MPI.
The following applications have been ported to the cluster:
- CFX,
- IMPACT21,
- MESHLESS,
- Monte Carlo,
- NEPTUNE and
- Star-CD
- Fluent
- Abaqus
- Transims.
Part of the cluster is shown in the figure above.
Contact:
Information Technology Section
Sect. Manager: Roger N. Blomquist
Fax: +1 630-252-4500
