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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)
    • 30TB Storage
    • Solaris 10
    • Accessible via NFS, Samba, SFTP(File Transfer over SSH)

Compute Engines

  • Sun Fire E2900 (golgi.cbi.utsa.edu)
    • 96 GB RAM
    • 12x Dual Core 1.5 GHz Processors (24 processing cores)
    • Solaris 10
    • Accessible via SSH
  • Dell PowerEdge
    • 128GB RAM
    • 4x Quad Core 3GHz Processors (16 processing cores)
    • Bishop.cbi.utsa.edu
      • Linux
      • Accessable via SSH
    • Turing.cbi.utsa.edu
      • Windows Server 2008
      • Accessable via Remote Desktop while on Campus ONLY
      • Contact CBI for access
  • 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)
    • Linux
    • Accessible via SSH
    • Uses Sun Grid Engine
  • Penguin Computing Cluster (mulliken.cbi.utsa.edu)
    • 5x Quad Core 2.6Ghz Processors
    • Managed by CBI. For Chemistry Dept use only

Workstations

  • Mac Dual G5 Workstation with 32" LCD Display
  • 5 Dell Workstations Windows XP 64 bit up to 30 GB RAM and 30" LCD Display
  • 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.