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Facilities
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The CGWA has excellent computational facilities
that consist of a network of SGIs, LINUX, and alpha workstations,
and including the exclusive use of two Beowulf clusters.
The center is also a charter member of the GriPhyN
and iVDGL projects,
two large scale NSF funded projects that will form the world's
first global "computational
grid", providing a Petabyte scale computational
resource for major scientific experiments in physics, astronomy,
biology and engineering, including LIGO.
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| Our beowulf cluster was named Lobizón.
A beowulf is built from of-the-shelf; computers, and computer
parts. This allows organizations such as universities to accomodate
a large amount of procesing power in their campus without
the great expense. Lobizón is a 96-node Linux Beowulf cluster
with Pentium III Intel processors, 800 MHz, 512 Mb or RAM,
and 40 GB of storage each node has been built at UT Brownsville
thanks to NSF support. This cluster, named `Lobizón',
is currently used for Gravitational
Wave data analysis and as a test-bed for grid computing
software (Condor, Globus, etc) and other (to-be-developed)
GriPhyN virtual data
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A new 41 node linux cluster, named Funes,
for source and numerical relativity simulations
is been built at the beginning of 2004, thanks to the support
of a NASA University Research grant and Grid computing projects.
It is composed of 41 nodes with dual Pentium Xeon 3.2 Ghz
processors 8 Gigabytes of RAM per node, 2 x 120 Gigabyte hard
drive per node, and interconnected through a gigabit network.
It will be powered by backup UPS systems to allow operation
for up to 30 minutes on batteries. It also comes with full
software installation in the form of RH9.0 operative system,
OSCAR 2.1 for the administration of the cluster and monitoring
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The cluster was named after Jorge Luis Borges short story
‘Funes, el memorioso’. You can find more info at the following links:
http://www.literatura.us/borges/funes.html
http://www.bridgewater.edu/~atrupe/GEC101/Funes.html |
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