Tools

Software

We first program by MATLAB, compiling and testing on small size systems. Then, we write the code in FORTRAN and run it with large systems.

Hardware

We take advantage of two computing resourses for our numerical calculations.

First is the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), a research computing center at Purdue University. The computing systems we use are IBM p690 (N-Regatta) (currently out for maintenance) and Recycled Cluster (Radon).

N-Regatta is dedicated to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology. The Regatta, acquired through an IBM SUR grant, has 16 1.7 GHz processsors with 128 GB of memory and 1.12 TB of dedicated scratch disk. The processors are 64-bit.

Radon is primarily built from retired instructional lab machines. The nodes are all Dell IA-32 P4 and mostly interconnected with either 100 MB Ethernet or gigabit Ethernet.

On the other hand, we get the support from Prof. Sameh, who offered an account for one of computer science clusters: Nacoca1. It has two 3.2GHz processes with 4G of memory.