Research Computing Facility
The CCMR Research Computing Facility supports the research goals of the Center in the areas of data acquisition, analysis, display of data, and computationally intensive modeling. The facility also supports information technologies that facilitate scientific collaboration, such as e-mail and web servers. The facility provides consulting, network administration, and security services, as well as system administration for computing workstations and clusters. An assortment of input/output devices are available, including scanners, two 60" poster printers, various grayscale, and color laser printers providing letter-size transparencies and single-sided or duplex paper printing.
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Manager Mitch Collinsworth 607.255.7223 mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu |
Faculty Advisor Faculty Advisor |
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Assistant Manager |
Computing Resources
Batch Computing Cluster
Our Linux batch computing cluster consists of 12 64–bit nodes with two dual-core 2 GHz AMD Opteron processors, 6 GB RAM, 120 GB local disk, and 24 32bit nodes with dual 1.67 GHz AMD Athlon CPUs, and 2 GB RAM and 40 GB local disk. A quad 1.8 GHz Opteron with 16 GB of RAM also exists within the cluster. All nodes have a Gigabit ethernet network interconnect. More than 1 TB of NFS file space is available for temporary storage.
Poster Printers
Two 60-inch Kodak 1200i poster printers are now available for general use. A printer is located in each facility.
Workstation Support
The facility provides system administration and network support services for workstations running Linux, MS Windows, and Apple MacOS and clusters running Linux.
Internet Support
Network Access
Remote access is available via internet for computing account holders using secure shell (SSH). Remote file service is available via the AFS file system or through secure copy (SCP).
Shared File System
The OpenAFS file system is accessible on all facility-managed systems and provides for transparent file sharing and file transfer between users or computers. The OpenAFS file system is backed up to tape daily for recovery from disaster or accidental file deletion. OpenAFS software is free and may be installed on nonfacility workstations enabling transparent access to the computing facility file servers.
Web Hosting Services
Website hosting is available for research groups, educational and industrial outreach programs, and departments and research centers. Personal web pages are available for use by computing account holders and are used by many faculty, staff, and students.
Services
Support services such as e-mail, Domain Name Service, CVS, network backup, and anonymous FTP are offered.
Software Overview
Design and Presentation
AutoCAD, xfig, TeX, LaTeX, LyX, Word, PowerPoint, OpenOffice, The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat
Scientific Research
ABAQUS, IDL, Gaussian, DFT++, abinit
Numerical Analysis and Visualization
LASSP Tools, Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, Octave, grACE/xmgr, genplot, gnuplot, OpenDX, RasMol, ImageMagick
Software Development (Languages, Compilers, Libraries)
Linux: C, C++, Fortran, Portland Group CDK, Intel, Gnu Atlas, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, Java JDK, MPICH, LAM/MPI
Windows: Microsoft Visual Studio (C, C++), Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, Java
Mac OS X: Apple Developer Tools, Gnu compilers (C, C++, Fortran), Perl, Python, Java, Atlas, ODEPACK, RNPL, MPICH, LAM/MPI
Batch Processing
Batch queuing is available using OpenPBS and Torque.
