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John Matrow, System Administrator/Trainer
Short History• HiPeCC created April 1999• Purchased 16p 300Mhz SGI Origin 2000• April 2001: Added 8p 250Mhz
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Magnetohydrodynamic Flows
Impact, Damage & Stress Analyses
Interior Aircraft Acoutics
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707 Body Panel No. 1 – Local Stresses
No Crack 18-in Crack
Aerospace Engineering
HiPeCC Software Usage 2002 (*=parallel code)Gaussian QuantumChemistry*Fluent Comp. FluidDynamics*STAGS Finite ElementAnalysisABAQUS Finite ElementAnalysis*LS-DYNA Finite ElementAnalysis*Prasanta DebMagnetohydrodynamicsPhoenix Numerical StellarAtmospheres*Mentat Finite ElementAnalysis
HiPeCC Software Usage 2003 (*=parallel code) Gaussian QuantumChemistry*COBALT Comp. FluidDynamics*ABAQUS Finite ElementAnalysis*LS-DYNA Finite ElementAnalysis*Fluent Comp. FluidDynamics*STAGS Finite ElementAnalysisPATRAN Finite ElementAnalysisMentat Finite ElementAnalysisPhoenix Numerical StellarAtmospheres*
Requirements
• Low Interconnect Requirement:COBALT, FLUENT
• Medium Interconnect Requirement:Gaussian, ABAQUS, LS-DYNA
• No particular I/O requirement• 1GB per processor RAM requirement• New codes coming:
CHARMM/NAMD
Benchmarking
• Sorry but confidential results
• But. . . .
• While 64 bit processors are perhaps 30-40% faster than Xeon,
• You can buy 5 2/3 Gigabit Xeons for price of one SMP 64 bit processor
Purchase from SGI
• SGI Altix 3700
32 1.3GHz Madisons
32 GB
• Two Atipa Technologies Clusters, each:34 dual 2.66GHz Xeon
34 GB
• SGI TP9100 storage: 1TB
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