Computer Facilites for Support of Computational Engineering
The computer facilities at Old Dominion University includes a wide set of capabilities that range from workstations to high performance parallel computers to state-of-the-art 3-D visualization environments. These facilities are coupled by a high-speed (100 Mb/sec) network. Many of these facilities are housed in the recently built Engineering & Computational Sciences Building (ECSB). Many of the faculty that work in the area of computational science have offices and laboratories in this
building which creates a synergetic research environment.
The high performance environment is anchored by several parallel computers managed by
the Office of Computing and Communication Services. These machines include:
- 96 node cluster environment, 64 and 30 node parallel configurations (SUN Fire V20z), Linux OS
- 32 cluster nodes (SUN Fire V20z), Linux OS
- 64 node SMP (SUN Enterprise 10000), Solaris OS
- 8 node SMP (SUN Enterprise 3500), Solaris OS
- 8 node SMP (SUN Enterprize 2900), Solaris OS
- 32 node workstation environment (PC hardware), Linux OS
In addition to the above systems, there are several smaller cluster systems that are maintained by various faculty and staff to support research.
This computing environment is supported by data storage system (over 14 TB of on-line storage)
that provides:
- a large, high-speed disk space (scratch) to support executing jobs;
- a 3-tier file storage system
- tier 1: fiber channel disk "cache" for highest speed access
- tier 2: large disk farm for short term storage
- tier 3: a tape system for long term storage
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