The Center for Lithospheric Studies

Computing Facilities at UT Dallas

Resources available to CLS students

Center for Lithospheric Studies

  • PC cluster with 32 Intel Woodcrest (64 bit) processors
  • PC Blade chassis cluster with 192 Intel Xeon (64 bit) processors
  • File server "tun" : 48 GB RAM, 8 processors, 4.8 TB
  • Master node "kong" : 128 GB RAM, 32 processors, 9.6 TB
  • Network of workstations
    • Dell T410 : 6 nodes with 2TB local staging disk
    • File server: Dell R510 "pkp",2 sockets, 6 cores/socket,12 * 2 TB disk storage
  • 13 Tbytes of disk
  • 16 Linux workstations
  • Power Macintosh G5
  • Two Macintosh Server G3s
  • a variety of laser & ink jet b/w & color plotters
  • three 36" HP color plotters (350C and 2500CP)
  • a variety of PCs (Windows 98, 2000, NT, & XP)
  • a variety of tape/disk/CD/DVD readers & writers
  • GBit network

School of Natural Sciences & Math

  • Hitachi DF600 LT0 II tape backup system/archive system
  • F1500 Foundry Fast iron switch
  • 2 Tbytes of disk

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

  • 'Lonestar' cluster; 2 Hex-core Xeon 5680 processors, 45 TB RAM, 302 TFlops, 276 TB disk
  • 'Ranger' cluster; 3936 AMD quad-core nodes 123 TB RAM, 504 TFlops, 1.73 PB disk

These are all networked. The local campus net is all fiber optics. All the machines are directly accessible from any terminal or workstation.


Software:

  • Winpics (Kernel Technologies, Inc.)
  • Kingdom Suite (Seismic Micro-Technology)
  • Geoscience Workbench (Jason Geosystems)
  • GOCAD (GOCAD Consortium)
  • SeisUP (GeoCenter, Inc.)
  • SU (CSM)
  • PRO4D (Hampson Russell)
  • VISTA and OMNI (GEDCO)
  • Petra (IHS)
  • Thrustline(Geo tomo)
  • Pro Max 3D-4D, Depth Change (Landmark/Hallibration)

Cluster Hardware:

PC Blade Chassis cluster with 192 processors

  • Intel Xeon 64 bit processors with 16 blades
  • Each blade has 2 sockets and 6 cores/socket
  • Each socket has 24 GB RAM
  • Total of 192 cores, 768 GB RAM
  • 10G Interconnect speed
  • Access to 17.8 TB of disk

PC cluster with 8 nodes (32 processors) (all duo-core, duo-processor)

  • Intel Woodcrest 5140 2.33 GHz processors (64 bit) (Supermicro X7DB8 motherboard)
  • Each processor has
    • 4 MB shared L2 cache
    • 8 (master) and 4 (slaves) GB RAM (DDR2-667)
    • Two 750G Seagate SATA2 disks
  • Myrinet 10G switch
  • PBSpro 8.0 batch system
  • RAID5 3ware 8590SE-8ML
    • 9x WD 150G 10krpm reptars
  • Backups
    • dirvish disk-to-disk backup
    • uses rsync
This page was last updated on Friday, 28-Jan-2011 12:47:25 CST.