UMSI 2001 Annual Report: Research Laboratories
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Research Laboratories
Basic Sciences Computing Laboratory
Since 1996, the Supercomputing Institute has provided high-performance work stations and visualization equipment to enhance the research capabilities of the University community through the Nils Hasselmo Hall, which is located on the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota. The facility occupies approximately 1700 square feet that includes a workstation room, video/graphics room, machine room, and two offices. The laboratory houses state-of-the-art computing platforms and graphics workstations including a variety of SGI workstations and an IBM Intellistation.
The Supercomputing Institute provides technical support and user support for these high-performance computing resources, and the laboratory is available to all University of Minnesota researchers. This laboratory was overseen and guided during 200001 by the following committees:
Executive Committee
Douglas H. Ohlendorf, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
Donald G. Truhlar, Supercomputing Institute Director, Chemistry,
Chemical Physics, and Scientific Computation
Steering Committee
Kevin Mayo, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, chair
Leonard J. Banaszak, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
David Live, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
Hans G. Othmer, Mathematics and Scientific Computation
Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
George L. Wilcox, Neuroscience and Scientific Computation
Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory
The Supercomputing Institutešs Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory, which is located in the Supercomputing Institutešs facilities in the Supercomputer Center Building, provides front-end equipment, including SGI and IBM workstations, Macintosh workstations, an Intellistation from IBM running Windows NT, a color scanner, a CD writer, an SGI O2 workstation for the creation and manipulation of videos, and a Super-VHS VCR.
The Institute provides user support services for supercomputer-related research using these general purpose systems. For 200001, the Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory was guided by a faculty steering committee made up of:
Thomas W. Jones, Astronomy and Scientific Computation, chair
Henryk K. Stolarski, Civil Engineering
David A. Yuen, Geology and Geophysics and Scientific Computation
IBM Shared University Research Netfinity Cluster
IBM, through its Shared University Research (SUR) Program, has provided an IBM Netfinity Linux cluster to the Supercomputing Institute. The Netfinity Linux cluster consists of 16 Netfinity 4500R nodes. Each node contains two 733 MHz Pentium III processors and 1 GB of memory. Myrinet networking products are used for interprocessor communications. For 200001 the IBM Shared University Research Netfinity Cluster Laboratory was guided by a faculty steering committee made up of:
Thomas W. Jones, Astronomy and Scientific Computation, chair
William B. Gleason, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Paul Kiprof, Chemistry, UMD
J. Ilja Siepmann, Chemistry and Scientific Computation
George L. Wilcox, Neuroscience and Scientific Computation
Darrin M. York, Chemistry
David A. Yuen, Geology and Geophysics and Scientific Computation
Medicinal Chemistry-Supercomputing Institute Visualization/Workstation Laboratory
The Medicinal Chemistry-Supercomputing Institute Workstation/Visualization Laboratory is co-sponsored by the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Supercomputing Institute. This laboratory is located in Weaver-Densford Hall and contains workstations that are used primarily for scientific visualization. This laboratory was overseen and guided during 200001 by the following committees:
Executive Committee
Yusuf Abul-Hajj, Medicinal Chemistry
Donald G. Truhlar, Supercomputing Institute Director, Chemistry,
Chemical Physics, and Scientific Computation
Steering Committee
David M. Ferguson, Medicinal Chemistry and Scientific Computation, chair
David J. W. Grant, Pharmaceutics
Carston R. Wagner, Medicinal Chemistry
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