IBM SP Computing Grants

 
  System Features
 

Model:
Processor (PE):
Number of PEs:
Number of nodes:
Processor per node:
DRAM:
Disk space:
Peak performance:
OS:
Internal Network:
Available compilers:
Parallel libraries:

IBM SP RS/6000 Power3 and P650 Power4 1.3 GHz
24 Power3 222 MHz and 8 Power 4 1.3 GHz
32
4
8
56 GBytes
610 GBytes
42 Gflop/s
AiX ver. 5.1
SPS Switch Omega
Fortran F90, C, C++
MPI, PVM, LAPI

 

 

The Astrophysical Observatory of Catania supports relevant research projects that need supercomputing power by means of computing time grants.

This computing facility is co-financed by European Community founds.
Grants are open to all European research groups.

  

 

Preference will be given to those projects that involve collaboration between different research groups at national and european level and whose main and sub goals are clearly defined.
All applications are submitted for unobjectionably approval to a Scientific Commitee appointed on pourpose by the Astrophysical Observatory of Catania.
Documentation is available at Cineca Supercomputing Center

 

  
The applicants' data and brief project description can be sent by e-mail to ube@ct.astro.it including the following informations:

Proposer data:

Institution

Forename

Surname

E-mail

Title/Position

Address

ZIP Code

City

Prov

Phone - Fax

Project data:

Project Title

Hours of CPU Requested for parallel application
Type (Thesys, New Parallel Application, Application Porting, Data Production)
Expiration time (in month)
Project description (max 2 pages)
Discipline (Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computing Science ...)
Other involved people (name surname and Institution)
Special Requests (Optional)
The proposer is bounded to mention the Astrophysical Observatory of Catania as a founder of the project everywhere it or its results are presented or shown, and to produce a final report of its work.
He also accepts that the Astrophysical Observatory of Catania can mention the same results at anytime and everywhere it chooses to do so for its promotion.

Available HPC Software at the Astrophysical Observatory of Catania

FLY a parallel tree code for N-body cosmological simulation
AstroMD a tool for 3D Visualization and data analysis
MARA a parallel code for curve anlaysis (cooming soon)
AstroComp a web portal that allows the use of high level parallelized software to perform simulations in astrophysical and cosmological context.

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