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 [...]
February 23rd, 2009 by Francisco Lopez
Computer Cluster
Last year, Broadcom graciously donated over 400 compute servers to UC Irvine. While the majority of the servers were distributed to campus researchers, NACS and the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences have collaborated to bring a new general-purpose campus computing solution to researchers and graduate students at no charge.
Initially, the Broadcom Distributed [...]
January 23rd, 2009 by Harry Mangalam
Moving Bulk Data
Data transfer is a routine activity for most faculty, whether it’s sharing research data with colleagues, downloading research databases, or backing up vital data. When the volume of data you’re transferring is in the tens or hundreds of megabytes, any tool can get the job done. When you have gigabytes, or tens of [...]
December 10th, 2008 by Tony Soeller
Geographic Information System (GIS) software has traditionally been used on desktop computers to develop, display, and analyze spatial data. Recent advances in web-based GIS software now allow researchers and instructors to upload their spatial data to online GIS services. Colleagues and students can then view and query — and even edit — GIS data online [...]
July 11th, 2003 by Dana Roode
The mission of NACS Research Computing Support (RCS) is to facilitate access to and promote the effective use of computational resources available to UCI researchers. The group provides consulting, training, and outreach in the use of hardware and software. Hardware resources promoted by RCS include: NACS administered Beowulf clusters, the Krein supercomputer, and other supercomputer [...]
May 20th, 1999 by Dana Roode
Professor Alexander Figotin of the UCI Mathematics Department has recently acquired a new SGI Origin2000 computer to provide the main computing resource for his research. The machine has been named “krein.math.uci.edu” after one of the most eminent mathematicians of our time, Mark Grigorievich Krein, who made many fundamental contributions in functional analysis and its applications. [...]