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Atmospheric
Science Group
Computer
Facilities
Beowulf
Cluster Parallel
Computer
Beowulf
Cluster "Messner"
This
Beowulf Cluster at UWM is maintained by Dr.
V. Larson of the Atmospheric Science Group, and is used for testing
of various atmospheric models.
It contains 22 1.9 GHZ processors nodes, each with 512 MRAM and 20
GB Hard Drive, and Linux is the operating system. The
nodes are connected through 1 GB/S speed Ethernet protocol.
It has
all major compiling, performance-analysis, and
debugging tools for developing high performance algorithms and carrying
out scientific simulations. Included are the Portland Group
Fortran 90 compiler, GNU C, MPICH from Argonne, netCDF (a data storage
format), Vis5D (visualization and animation software), and the Weather
and Research Forecast (WRF) model.
It
is housed in an ordinary faculty office with the addition of four
self-contained air conditioners (shown with exhaust tubes venting into
the space above the false ceiling.) The room temperature tends to
hover about 75 degrees F.
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