 OVERVIEW
- University of Malaya (UM) is the leading university in Malaysia
and has a vision to be an internationally renowned institution of higher
learning in research, innovation, publication and teaching. To
accomplish the mission to advance knowledge and learning through quality
research and education for the nation and humanity, UM is committed to
the research in various fields of Science, Engineering and Technology
namely Biological Science, Physics Science, Chemistry Science, Earth
Science, Environmental Science, Mechanical and Electric Engineering,
Bio-Medical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Bioinformatics, ICT and many
other significant fields.
- Enhance of that, the Centre for Information Technology
University of Malaya (PTM) have been able to bring a new Symmetric Multi
Processing (SGiAltix4700), Linux Cluster (SGiAltix1300) and Windows
Cluster (SGiAltix1300) in service for the University of Malaya High
Performance Computing (UMHPC) to its multi-users, multi-purpose
computing and storage requirement. The objectives and purpose of the
UMHPC are aiming to support research. Teaching and training in the
fields of Science, Engineering and Technology by providing leading edge,
effective advance technology knowledge transfer and a conducive and
excellent environment for the best practice oriented learning in the
fields above to the scientists, researchers and students and fully
prepare the UM graduates for a challenging carrier in industry
CONFIGURATION
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Symmetric Multi Processing (SGiAltix4700)
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Linux Cluster (SGiAltix1300)
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Windows Cluster (SGiAltix1300)
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Hybrid High Performance & High Capacity SAN/NAS Storage
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| Specification |
64 x Dual Core Intel Itanium2 64 bits
Processors128GB Memory, 2x300GB SAS 15K RPM, Hardware RAID 1
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Head Node
2 x Dual Core Intel Xeon processors 3.0GHz
16GB Memory, 2 x 146GB 15K RPM SAS
4 Compute Nodes
2 x Quad Core Intel Xeon processors 2.66GHz
16GB Memory per node, 4 x 250GB 7200RPM
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Head Node
2 x Dual Core Intel Xeon processors 3.0GHz
16GB Memory, 2 x 146GB 15K RPM SAS
4 Compute Nodes
2 x Quad Core Intel Xeon processors 2.66GHz
16GB Memory per node, 4 x 250GB 7200RPM
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SAN/NAS Gateway
2x Dual Core Intel Xeon 2.66Ghz
8GB memory, 2 x 73GB 15000 RPM SAS Hard disk
SAN/NAS SATA
Total RAW storage capacity is 12TB (16x750GB)
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Applications install on the server
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Amber
Gromacs
NWChem
Gaussian
Blast
Espresso |
Amber
Gromacs
NWChem
Blast
Espresso |
Maya 2009
Mental-Ray3
VRay
Pipeline FXQube |
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SUMMARY OF THE APPLICATIONS :
- The AMBER software suite provides a set
of programs for applying the AMBER forcefields to simulations of
biomolecules. It is written in Fortran 90 and C with support for most
major Unix-like systems and compilers.
- The GROMACS project was originally
started to construct a dedicated parallel computer system for molecular
simulations, based on a ring architecture. The molecular dynamics
specific routines were rewritten in the C programming language from the
Fortran77-based program GROMOS, which had been developed in the same
group. However, many specific elements were added.
- NWChem is an ab initio computational
chemistry software package which also includes quantum chemical and
molecular dynamics functionality. It was designed to run on
high-performance parallel supercomputers as well as conventional
workstation clusters. It aims to be scalable both in its ability to
treat large problems efficiently, and in its usage of available parallel
computing resources.
- GAUSSIAN is a computational chemistry
software program initially use of Gaussian orbitals to speed up
calculations compared to those using Slater-type orbitals, a choice made
to improve performance on the limited computing capacities of
then-current computer hardware for Hartree-Fock calculations including
cutting-edge research in quantum chemistry and other fields.
- The Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software
Verification Tool (BLAST) is a software model checking tool for C
programs. The task addressed by BLAST is the need to check whether
software satisfies the behavioural requirements of its associated
interfaces. BLAST employs counterexample-driven automatic abstraction
refinement to construct an abstract model that is then model-checked for
safety properties. The abstraction is constructed on the fly, and only
to the requested precision.
- The Espresso logic minimizer is a
computer program using heuristic and specific algorithms for efficiently
reducing the complexity of digital electronic gate circuits.
- Maya (a Sanskrit word for "illusion"),
is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modelling software package and
used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video
games, architectural visualisation and design.
- Mental Ray is a production-quality
rendering application it's supports ray tracing to generate images. Its
feature set is comparable to that of PhotoRealistic RenderMan, the
RISpec-compliant renderer by Pixar, over which it holds certain
advantages and disadvantages. Certain rendering tasks can be much faster
in PRman (albeit usually at the expense of true physical accuracy)
while others are much faster in mental ray (e.g. computations involving
heavy ray tracing or global illumination).
- V-Ray is a rendering engine that is used as an extension of certain 3D computer graphics software.
- PipelineFX Qube is the leading render
farm management system for film and post production, broadcast graphics,
game development and digital media education. Ideal for rendering and
build processing alike, Qube has demonstrated time and again that it can
improve productivity and increase content quality while optimizing
hardware resources.
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Last Updated 22th July 2009
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