Buffalo installs SGI Linux clusterNew York 31 February 2001 The University at Buffalo's Centre for Computational Research (CCR in the USA, will install a 52-processor Linux SGI system. This solution will provide CCR with additional high performance computing resources for distributed parallel scientific applications served at the centre. The Linux cluster from SGI, comprising of 76 dual Pentium III processor SGI 1100 servers, will become one of the primary compute engines at CCR, which supports 25 university departments.
The SGI 1100 cluster for Linux, with its easy rack-and-stack capability,
will significantly increase the facility's computing power and help lower
costs while continuing to meet the needs of the research community by
supporting a wide range of applications used by the researchers at the
university.
By integrating the SGI 1100 server into the university's
network, users will have access to the distributed memory cluster in
addition to an existing 128-processor, shared-memory SGI 2800 server.
The CCR's research applications include tools for computational chemistry,
molecular structure determination, computational fluid dynamics and
computer animation. An example is the award-winning molecular structure
determination software Shake-and-Bake, developed jointly by scientists at
CCR and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, to solve protein
crystal structures.
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