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High Performance Computing Resources at UTEP
   
HPC Systems    

The following HPC Resources are available at UTEP. If you need an account on Star, or sacagawea please fill out the following form and return by UTEP internal mail or fax to Sergio Zapata.

Shared Memory SMP Systems:

  1. Star : an IBM eServer pSeries 590 (symmetric multiprocessor) acquired in 2005 with the aid of an IBM Shared University Research Grant. Star has 24 POWER5 1.65 GHz processors, 96 GB of main memory, 5 TB disk space (of which 3 TB in a DS4000 2GB Fiber Channel SATA storage array) and a 140.8 peak GFlops rating. Contact: Dr. Patricia Teller (pteller at utep.edu) or for account Sergio N Zapata (snzapata at utep.edu).


  2. Top Gun : an IBM eServer pSeries 690 (symmetric multiprocessor) acquired in 2003 with the aid of an IBM Shared University Research Grant. Top Gun has 16 POWER4 1.3 GHz processors, 32 GB of main memory, 3 TB disk space (of which 1 TB in a DS4300 2GB Fiber Channel SCSI storage array) and a 83.2 peak Gflops rating. Contact: Dr. Patricia Teller (pteller at utep.edu).


  3. Explorer: an IBM eServer pSeries 550 (symmetric multiprocessor) acquired in 2005 with the aid of a STAR Award. Explorer has 4 POWER5 1.65 GHz processors, 32 GB of main memory, 6 GigaBit Ethernet Cards and approx. 1 TB disk space. Contact: Dr. Patricia Teller (pteller at utep.edu).


  4. Kisin: a Sun Fire V880 symmetric multiprocessor system with 8 UltraSPARC III 750 MHz processors, 32 GB main memory and 432 GB of nominal user disk space. Contact: Carlos Montana (montana at utep.edu)


  5. Kirk: a SGI Origin 2000 symmetric multiprocessor acquired using funds from a National Science Foundation grant. Kirk has 8 MIPS R10000 180 MHz processors, 3 GB main memory, 82 GB disk space and 4 peak Gflops rating. Contact: Dr. Patricia Teller (pteller at utep.edu).


  6. Docking: a Penguin Computing Altus 3400 system with 4 dual-core AMD Opteron processors, 8 GB RAM and 2.5 TB of disk space. The system will be the production server for the DAPLDS Docking@Home project. Contact: Dr. Michela Taufer (mtaufer at utep.edu)

Linux Clusters:

  1. Sacagawea: a 64-node Penguin Computing Linux cluster acquired from a STAR award funding of Drs Gates and Kreinovich, with 128 2.0 GHz AMD Opteron processors, 256 GB RAM, 10TB disk space and a 435 GFlops rating. The system will be used to teach cluster technology to UTEP faculty, staff and students and for running several codes developed by research groups in the College of Engineering. Contact: Sergio N Zapata (snzapata at utep.edu)


  2. Geo Cluster: A Dell Cluster consisting of 40 HPC 1425 servers with dual 3.8 GHz, 8GB memory and 160GB HDD. This cluster runs MS Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The system will be used for operations related to emergency response by the Texas National Guard and local emergency responders in any natural or human induced disaster.


  3. Felina: a Cray XD1 Linux Cluster with 36 dual-core AMD 2.2 GHz Opteron processors, 144 GB RAM, 1.5 TB disk space and a 317 peak GFlops rating. The system will be used to develop and test new scalable numerical methods for computationally intensive applications in science and engineering (FEM Group). Contact: Dr. Pavel Solin (solin at utep.edu)


  4. Virgo: a Beowulf cluster designed and constructed in 2003-2004. The Virgo cluster employs a frontend and 20 compute nodes, each with 2 Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors and 4 GB main memory, 487 GB user disk space and a 139 peak Gflops rating. Contact: Dr. David Williams (williams at ece.utep.edu).


  5. Vampyre : an Intel Itanium 2 cluster acquired under the Hewlett-Packard Company Advanced Technology Platforms - Itanium 2 2003 Academic Grant Initiative in summer 2003. The Vampyre cluster has 8 Intel Itanium 2 900 MHz processors, 8 GB main memory, 480 GB disk space and 14 peak Gflops rating. Contact: Leopoldo Hernandez (leo at utep.edu).


  6. UtepGeon01: a 11-node ROCKS cluster used as a grid node in the GEON (http://www.geongrid.org/) project. The Geon cluster consists of 5 Dell 2650 systems (each with 2 Intel Xeon 2.0 GHz processors and 2 GB main memory), 6 Penguin Computing Relion 2300 systems (each with 2 Intel Xeon processors and 2 GB main memory) and 1500 GB user disk space. Contact: Dr. Raed Al-Douri (raeda at utep.edu).


  7. Critical: a 3-node ROCKS cluster used as a computational resource for a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored research project in System Dynamics modeling of critical infrastructure at the Advanced Transportation Research Laboratory (http://ctis.utep.edu/atrl). The head node contains an AMD XP 3200+ processor and 2 GByte of memory. Each compute node has a AMD XP 3200+ processor and 1 GByte of memory. Total user disk space is 480 GByte. Contact: Dr. Yi-Chang Chiu (chiu at utep.edu).

External systems (accessible to UTEP researchers):

  1. Mastodon:A hetergeneous Linux cluster operated at the Computer Science department of the University of Texas at Austin. The system consists of mixed IBM and HP hardware and has currently more than 200 processors online. Accounts can be requested by writing an email to Sergio Zapata. Sergio will then forward this request to UTCS.