Computational Facilities
UT is home to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), whose flagship cluster Lonestar is a Dell Linux Cluster, with 22,656 cores within 1,888 Dell PowerEdge M610 compute blades (nodes), 16 PowerEdge R610 compute-I/O server-nodes, and 2 PowerEdge M610 (3.3GHz) login nodes. Many researchers involved in this proposal regularly obtain computer time from TACC for their research activities.
UCSB has six computational workstations (2.4GHz quad-core CPU, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB HDD) as desktop machines for graduate and undergraduate researchers to develop codes, visualize results, and perform analyses (Shell Group). Extensive computational resources are available through the UCSB Center for Scientific Computation (CSC), managed jointly by the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) and Materials Research Laboratory (MRL).
LBNL utilizes the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the primary scientific computing resource at LBNL. We will use NERSC's Cori machine, a Cray XC40 with a peak performance of about 30 petaflops. Cori is comprised of 2,388 Intel Xeon "Haswell" processor nodes, 9,688 Intel Xeon Phi "Knight's Landing" nodes, and a 1.8 PB Cray Data Warp Burst Buffer and a peak performance of 27.8 Petaflops.