Phone: 616-331-2274
Fax: 616-331-3740
Dr.Richard Vallery (Chair)
valleryr@gvsu.edu

117 Padnos Hall of Science, 1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI 49401

GVSU High Performance Computing Cluster


This cluster is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. CNS-1228291.

Project PI: Dr. K. Majumdar (Physics), Co-PI: Drs. M. Krcmar (Physics), A. Szarecka (CMB), and D. Furton (Physics).

Cluster In-Charge: Dr. Doug Furton.

 
Cluster Details:

  • Dell/RHEL/Rocks+ Cluster. Runs at 3.0 TFLOPS (measured against the HPLinpack benchmark).
  • Operating system: RHEL Server 6.2 with StackIQ Rocks+ 6.0.1 cluster management software and Sun Grid Engine (SGE) job scheduler.
  • Head node: Dell PowerEdge R720 with dual E5-2620 2.0GHz, 15M Cache, hex-core CPUs, 64GB RAM and 4TB disk (RAID 5).
  • Compute nodes (16): Dell PowerEdge R420 with dual E5-2430 2.2GHz, 15M Cache, hex-core CPUs, 24GB Ram and 500MB disk.
  • Connectivity: Dell 5524 GbE and Intel True Scale Fabric Infiniband Switch 12300-BS18.
  • GCC version 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) and Python 2.6.6 installed.
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Education and Research:

  • Frustrated quantum spin systems.
  • First principle density functional calculations.
  • Molecular biology simulations.

 
Publications:

  Last Modified Date: February 26, 2013
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