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Frank J. Manion, MS CTO, Senior Director George Mathew, MS, MTech Manager Joseph P. Anlage, MSc System Administrator David T. Poole, BS Systems Programmer Guoli Wang, PhD Sr. Data Analyst and System Administrator Vadim Zubarev, MS Sr. Systems Administrator and Video Engineer

Center Building, Room C119 215-728-3660 RITF@fccc.edu

Function

The High Performance Computing Facility provides specialized support for high performance computing (HPC), HPC software and programming consulting, video engineering, and various related integration services for laboratories and facilities throughout the Center. Services conducted in the facility include computer clusters management, software and scientific applications installation and customization, HPC server/client tools development, HPC programming, video/visualization architecture design and equipments deployment.

Description

The major computing resource of the facility is a IBM 1350 cluster with 70 compute nodes/140 processors, 2 management nodes and totally ~1TB storage capacity. Currently, 26 nodes with 54 processors are available for use, with the remainder planned for early 2007. Software and applications available for use on the cluster include Schrodinger, Charmm and Rosetta.

Facility members have experience on parallelized programming (MPI C/C⁺⁺, R), can modify and customize software that users collected for in-house use, help users to parallelize their sequential applications to take the full advantage of HPC, and can assist in the design, development, and implementation of tools and applications for end users.

In video service, facility staff can assist with problems involving video equipment design and deployment, video stream capture, digitizing analog video, video editing, and production of video and multimedia presentations.