WM Keck Computational Materials Theory Center

  • Dr. Nicholas Kioussis
  • group photo

Facilities

The University has allocated 4,000 square feet of space for the CMTC on the third floor of Science I building, and 3,000 square feet of space for the Materials Science Center in the College of Engineering. The Computational Materials Theory Center has acquired the following high performance computer infrastructure through NSF, NASA, US Army, and Keck and Parsons Foundation grants:   

SGI Origin3800

  • 32 400MHZ IP35 Processors
  • Main memory size: 32768 Mbytes
  • Operating System: IRIX 6.5

SGI Origin2400

  • 16 400MHZ IP27 Processors
  • Main memory size: 8960 Mbytes
  • Operating System: IRIX 6.5

Compaq DEC Alpha ES40

  • 16 Alpha EV6.8AL processors operate at 834 MHz
  • Physical Memory 4096.00 Mbytes
  • Operating System: Tru64 5.1A

SGI Octane

  • 2 300 MHZ IP30 Processors
  • Main memory size: 512 Mbytes
  • Operating System: IRIX 6.5

SGI O2

  • 1 400 MHZ IP32 Processor
  • Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
  • Operating System: IRIX 6.5

Compaq DEC Alpha

  • 2 Alpha EV6.8AL processors operate at 600 MHz
  • Physical Memory 1032 Mbytes
  • Operating System: RedHat 6.2

HP J282 dual-processors (6 systems)

HP735 (2 systems)

HP X-terminals (10 systems)

Dell Dimension PCs 2GHz Process (10 Systems)

Backup Device

  • Qualstar TLS-4440
  • Sony AIT 2 Tape Drive
  • Tapes: 700Gbytes Native, 1.4 Tbyes Compressed

UPS

  • APC Symmetra 4-16kVA systems