{"id":71,"date":"2013-07-12T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hachmannlab.cbe.buffalo.edu\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2014-05-15T16:40:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:40:50","slug":"tools-and-toys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hachmannlab.cbe.buffalo.edu\/index.php\/research\/tools-and-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools &#038; Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tools &amp; Toys<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTheoreticians do not usually have lasers or other fancy lab equipment to play with, but we still have a few tools and toys we enjoy. First and foremost: computers. <b>Big computers&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CCR cluster rush\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rush2_sm.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCR&#8217;s shared research cluster <a href=\"http:\/\/ccr.buffalo.edu\/support\/research_facilities.html\">&#8220;rush&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOur primary computing resource is currently the &#8220;rush&#8221; general compute cluster of the <a title=\"UB's Center for Computing Research\" href=\"http:\/\/ccr.buffalo.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Center for Computing in Research (CCR)<\/b><\/a> at UB. <a title=\"Research Facilities of the UB CCR\" href=\"http:\/\/ccr.buffalo.edu\/support\/research_facilities.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rush&#8221;<\/a> is a supercomputer with currently (05\/2014) 8000 cores and QDR Infiniband interconnect. A subset (32) of the cluster nodes contain (64) NVidia Tesla M2050 &#8220;Fermi&#8221; GPUs. CCR also maintains several high-performance storage systems including Isilon-based storage (320TB) as well as a parallel storage system from Panasas (215TB). The Center&#8217;s clusters contain high-performance low-latency Infiniband networks, and they are interconnected via a 10 gigabit Ethernet (10gigE) core network from Arista. CCR has a peak performance capacity of more than 100 Tflops, 600 TB of high-performance storage, and it is housed in a state-of-the-art 4000 sq ft machine room. For more details, check out the <a title=\"Research Facilities of the UB CCR\" href=\"http:\/\/ccr.buffalo.edu\/support\/research_facilities.html\" target=\"_blank\">CCR webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn addition to &#8220;rush&#8221; the group will obtain its own research cluster later this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nA big &#8220;Thank you!&#8221; goes to our friends over at CCR (in particular <b>Dr. Tom Furlani, Dr. Matt Jones, Cynthia Cornelius, and Steve Gallo<\/b>), who are doing a truly amazing job hosting and administering a first-class academic high-performance computing facility. We could not do our work without them.\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"style-joh1\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWe are also very grateful for support by the <a title=\"UB's Science &#038; Engineering Node Services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sens.buffalo.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>UB Science &#038; Engineering Node Services (SENS)<\/b><\/a>. SENS provides computer and technical support as well as assistance for most of the science and engineering disciplines of UB&#8217;s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). SENS maintains a diverse set of facilities and provides a variety of services. For instance, they host this webpage as well as our Redmine project management server. A particular thanks goes to <b>Dave Yearke<\/b> for all his help and patience.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SENS lab in 101 Bell\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sens_101bell_sm.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SENS computer lab in 101 Bell Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tools &amp; Toys Theoreticians do not usually have lasers or other fancy lab equipment to play with, but we still have a few tools and toys we enjoy. First and foremost: computers. Big computers&#8230; Our primary computing resource is currently the &#8220;rush&#8221; general compute cluster of the Center for Computing in Research (CCR) at UB. &#8220;Rush&#8221; is a supercomputer with currently (05\/2014) 8000 cores and QDR Infiniband interconnect. A subset (32) of the cluster nodes contain (64) NVidia Tesla M2050 &#8220;Fermi&#8221; GPUs. CCR also maintains several high-performance storage systems including Isilon-based storage (320TB) as well as a parallel storage system from Panasas (215TB). The Center&#8217;s clusters contain high-performance low-latency Infiniband networks, and they are interconnected via a 10 gigabit Ethernet (10gigE) core network from Arista. CCR has a peak performance capacity of more than 100 Tflops, 600 TB of high-performance storage, and it is housed in a state-of-the-art 4000 sq ft machine room. For more details, check out the CCR webpage. In addition to &#8220;rush&#8221; the group will obtain its own research cluster later this year. A big &#8220;Thank you!&#8221; goes to our friends over at CCR (in particular Dr. Tom Furlani, Dr. Matt Jones, Cynthia Cornelius, and Steve Gallo), who are doing a truly amazing job hosting and administering a first-class academic high-performance computing facility. We could not do our work without them. We are also very grateful for support by the UB Science &#038; Engineering Node Services (SENS). SENS provides computer and technical support as well as assistance for most of the science and engineering disciplines of UB&#8217;s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). SENS maintains a diverse set of facilities and provides a variety of services. For instance, they host this webpage as well as our Redmine project management server. 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