July 22nd, 2009 by Francisco Lopez
ZotPortal
After an extensive campus-wide planning process, the student portal “ZotPortal” went live on April 27 of this year. IAT-NACS worked with Student Affairs to design the high-reliability and high-performance system hardware, and provides ongoing network and system administration services, as well as housing elements of ZotPortal in separate data centers.
Through ZotPortal students can access academic [...]
July 22nd, 2009 by Francisco Lopez
Greenplanet
Physical Sciences, with support from IAT-NACS, has assembled a high-performance computing cluster for climate modeling and other computational-intensive research.
Called “Greenplanet,” the cluster comprises nodes purchased by faculty in Earth Systems Sciences (ESS), Chemistry, and Physics, and it is expected that Math faculty will also participate. At this time, Greenplanet includes almost 900 CPUs and is [...]
October 15th, 2004 by Dana Roode
UCI’s Earth System Modeling Facility (ESMF) offers accounts to all UCI researchers and students interested in High Performance Computing. The ESMF presently consists of a cluster of 88 IBM Power4 CPUs in seven 8-way and one 32-way SMP nodes running AIX 5.1L. The Visual Age compilers fully support OpenMP and MPI. The computational environment is [...]
April 24th, 2003 by Dana Roode
NACS provides and supports various computing resources and services for the UCI community. One noteworthy computing resource, GradEA, has been developed for the exclusive use of UCI graduate students. The intent is to provide graduate students with access to high-speed CPUs, large-data storage capacity, and advanced software.
GradEA consists of 11 dual-CPU Intel Xeon 2.0 GHz [...]
March 22nd, 1997 by Dana Roode
Network & Academic Computing Services will soon upgrade the Convex C3840, the principal NACS numerical computation server, to a Hewlett-Packard Exemplar SPP2000 with 16 CPUs and 2 Gigabytes of memory. The SPP2000 will provide more than ten times the computing performance of the C3840 and will provide a comprehensive parallel computing environment for the first time within [...]
February 3rd, 1997 by Dana Roode
On December 19th, NACS met with a cross-section of campus faculty “consumers” of High Performance Computing (HPC) to discuss the current state of HPC at UCI. The group included approximately 25 researchers from fields that have historically dominated use of HPC – engineering, chemistry, physics and biological sciences.
HPC refers to significantly faster “number crunching” power [...]