Computational Resources

The facility provides major computing resources to the UTHSCSA and UTSA. This includes graphics workstations as well as two powerful Sun servers and substantial data backup capability. Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, and Redhat Linux workstations are available for modeling and data annalysis use. Hardware currently in place includes:

Storage

• Sun Fire V490 NAS (cajal.cbi.utsa.edu)
  • 9TB Storage

Compute Engines

• Sun Fire E2900 (golgi.cbi.utsa.edu)
  • 96 GB RAM
  • 12x Dual Core 1.5 GHz Processors (24 processing cores)
• Dell High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster (cluster.cbi.utsa.edu)
  • 30x 3.0 GHz Dual-Processor, Dual-Core Nodes (120 processing cores)
  • 8 Gb RAM per node (~2GB RAM per core)

Servers

• 2x Sun x4100 x86_64
  • Web Server (www.cbi.utsa.edu)
  • Sun Secure Global Desktop Server (koch.cbi.utsa.edu)

Workstations

• Mac Dual G5 Workstation with 30" LCD Display
• 4 64-Bit Dell Workstations
  • 6+ GB RAM

• Four Dell Precision workstations (dual Xeon 3.0Ghz CPUs, 6-8G RAM)
• One Apple’s Power G5 (dual-CPU, 8G memory)
• 10 SUN Ultra 20 workstations

In addition to physical access to our lab of workstations located in BSE 3.114, users have shell access to our computing engines located in the central computing facility in the JPL Building at UTSA. This space provides full power backup, security, special fire suppresion equipment, and other protection. This includes SUN E2900 server (24x 1.5 GHz processing elements, 96G memory), perfect for large data sets, and our 30 node compute cluster (120x 3.0 GHz processing elements, ~2GB RAM per core) which is ideal for mpi programs or batches of jobs working on smaller data sets.

Both our servers and workstations have direct access to our 10 terabytes of data storage, which is backed up to tape daily by our L500 tape library. This data is also available to Windows, Macintosh, and *nix systems anywhere on campus via the SMB data sharing protocol.