RCC Overview

RCC Resources

The Research Computing Center (RCC) at the University of Georgia supports several high-performance compute (HPC) platforms. One of the three primary machines is an IBM p655 cluster with 256 Power-4+ CPU's, and 512GB RAM. This computer has 1.5 Tflops of compute power, and is primarily used to run compiled code (Fortran, C), and resource intensive scientific applications such as Amber, Mathematica, R, Nwchem, and Gaussian. Another primary system is a Rackable-Systems Linux cluster, with 120 (dual-processor) AMD Opteron nodes, and 24 (dual-processor) dual-core AMD Opteron nodes, with the latter nodes having InfiniBand network connectivity. This system has 680GB of RAM, produces 1.6 Tflops of compute power, and is used for a diverse array of applications, including GCG, SAS, Blast, MatLab, Clustal, Phylip, Hmmer, and IPRscan. The third HPC computer is a Silicon Graphics Altix 3700, with 16 Itanium-64 processors and 32GB RAM. This machine runs a variety of software packages including EMBOSS, Phred/Phrap/Consed, MEME, RepeatMasker, and Blast. The Altix is also used for code compilation.

Data storage for all of the RCC computers is provided by network attached fas960 and r200 disk clusters from Network Appliance. At present, total available storage capacity on these storage clusters is 20TB.

All of the RCC computing hardware is protected by a state of the art, hardware-based Intrusion Protection System (IPS), which actively detects and prevents intrusions of all RCC resources from outside networks.