Welcome to Professor Dexuan Xie's High Performance Scientific Computing Laboratory. The Lab is located in room E418 on the fourth floor of the Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building at the southwest corner of the UWM campus. With the initial research fund from UWM, Prof. Xie began building the lab in the fall of 2002. The Lab is now supported by funds from NSF and UWM.
The long-term goal of the lab is to become an interdisciplinary facility for applied mathematics, high-performance computing, computational biology, and computational bioengineering in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UWM. In particular, the Lab focuses on fundamental research and education in emerging areas of mathematical biology and bioengineering. New mathematical methods, new biological models and new simulation protocols will be developed in the Lab to conque challenging large scale scientific computing problems that arise from mathematical biology and bioengineerin.
Four research projects are being carried out in the Lab. Project 1 is to simulate protein-membrane interactions by implicit solvent models, Project 2 is to develop efficient parallel numerical algorithms for solving general blood-tissue transport and metabolism model governed by a system of nonlinear hyperbolic equations, Project 3 is to simulate cytochrome c and its various mutants to understand biophysical hypotheses regarding reduction potential control and modulation and other key properties (e.g., stability), and Project 4 is to visualize structure-activity relationships of chemical databases.
The computing resource of the lab includes (1) one 8-core 3GHz Mac Pro Workstation with 16 Gbytes main memory, (2) one SGI Origin 2000 with 16 processors, (3) one SGI Origin 300 with 4 processors, (4) one 4-core Dell precison 490 Linux workstation with 12 Gbytes main memory.