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Summary: Need access to High Performance Computing resources? UCI researches can take advantage of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) for free.
UCI researchers have direct access to High Performance Computing (HPC) resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) without charge to the researcher. Principally these resources include the IBM Blue Horizon computer (a parallel processor with 1152 CPUs), the HPC 10000 (a parallel processor with 64 CPUs) and the High Performance Storage System for archival and retrieval of multi-terabyte data files.
The SDSC HPC computers have program compilers, engineering and scientific software, biomolecular and environmental data repositories, and, on the Blue Horizon, parallel-programming software (MPI and OpenMP).
Additionally, SDSC hosts an annual week-long workshop where all aspects of HPC are presented to researchers and hands-on experimentation with the SDSC computers is taught. This workshop is free to UCI researchers.
Indirectly, through the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), of which SDSC is a member, UCI researchers have access to extended HPC resources at SDSC, the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, and Caltech. Some of these resources include the Cray T3E, IBM SP and HPV2500 computers. Additional applications software is available on these machines. You can also subscribe to NPACI News.
The computer resources within SDSC are readily available to UCI researchers and do not require a proposal to gain access. The extended resources available through NPACI do require a proposal which is reviewed for scientific applicability and researcher's need.
| Name | Version | Category |
|---|---|---|
| AMBER | 6 | Molecular Mechanics/Dynamics |
| bash | 2.04 | Shells |
| ESSL | 3.12 | Numerical Libraries |
| HDF | 4.1r3 | File, I/O Utilities |
| MPI | n/a | Parallel Programming |
| NETCDF | 3.4 | File, I/O Utilities |
| PESSL | 2.1.2 | Numerical Libraries |
| Test App | 1.0 | Quantum Chemistry |
| TotalView | 4.1 | Debugging Tools |
