High Performance Scientific Computing Laboratory
Welcome to Prof. 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 both UWM and NSF. The computing resource of the lab includes:
SGI Origin 2000 with sixteen MIPS R12000 400MHz processors, 8 Gbytes of main memory and 180 Gbytes of SCSI harddisk memory.
SGI Origin 300 with four 600 MHz MIPS R14000 processors
SGI Octane workstation
Dell Precision 530n Linux workstation: 2GHz/400Mhz Xeon processor with 512k Cache and 512MB memory
Dell Inspiron 8200 Notebook: Mobile Pentium 4 Processor, 1.7GHz, 256 MB memory, and XP
HP Officejet d145 for color print, scan, copy, and fax
The lab currently focuses on two research projects related to computational biology:
Simulation of protein-membrane interactions by implicit solvent models. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation. The co-PI is Dr. Peter Butko , a professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Visualization of structure-activity relationships of chemical databases. This project is currently supported by the Graduate School Research Committee of UWM.
The solution of these two projects involves mathematical modeling and analysis, large-scale nonlinear optimization, numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations, software package development, and large-scale biomolecular simulations. Progress made in the projects can significantly promote the development of mathematics, numerical algorithms, software packages, and computational biology.
The long-term goal of the lab is to become an interdisciplinary facility for applied mathematics, high-performance computing, computational biology, and education in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UWM.
04/30/2003