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PNCE Resources
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Departmental Computing Resources
The Department of Physics provides the following resources to the members
of the department:
- UNIX Remote Shell Access Shell Account on Departmental Login
Servers (login.physics.umd.edu)
- A Home Directory for Storage of Files with a modest quota
- Physics Open Workstation Lab (OWL) Printing (HP LaserJet
4 PCL/PS) via a Printing Quota and Pay-For-Print when quota is exceeded
- Electronic Mail Services
- World Wide Web Services for Departmental Groups and Individual
Users
- PNCE Computing Assistance via First-Aiders in the Physics OWL
Information on how to access these resources are available on the Information
for New Users link found on the PNCE main page.
National Scalable Cluster Project #2 Resources
The NSCP2 Project was funded partially by a 1997 NSF grant, and
the rest by departmental, college, and research group funds. NSCP2 is a
cluster of Digital Alpha workstations. This cluster expands on the departmental
PNCE and provides a considerable amount of additional resources in order
to meet the computational needs of our research groups. Users who are members
of the research groups involved in the NSCP2 can gain access to these resources.
Dr. Drew Baden is the PI for this project.
NSCP2 Resources Include:
- 50GB of scratch space (temporary storage for large data sets)
- Interactive access to machines assigned to
- Load Sharing Facility (LSF) batch access to at least 12 Digital Alpha
workstations to run intensive computations
- each group gets approximately 3GB of shared group storage (per
share)
- typical client is DEC Alpha 500/333 MHz workstation, 256MB RAM,
running Digital UNIX 4.x
NSCP2 Research Group Participants
- Experimental Nuclear Physics (enp)
- Theory of Quarks, Hadrons, and Nuclei (tqhn) [3 shares]
- Superconductivity Center (super)
- Condensed Matter Theory - Yakovenko (yako)
- Condensed Matter Theory - DasSarma (sst)
- High Energy Physics (hep)
- Cosmic Ray Physics (cosmic)
National Scalable Cluster Project #1 Resources
The NSCP1 Project was funded partially by a 1995 NSF grant, and
the rest by research group funds. NSCP1 is a cluster of IBM RS/6000
workstations. This cluster will migrate into the PNCE later this fall (tentatively).
. Users who are members of the research groups involved in the NSCP1 can
gain access to these resources. Dr. Drew Baden is the PI for this
project.
NSCP1 Resources
- 40 GB scratch space (temporary storage for large data sets)
- Load Sharing Facility (LSF) batch access to 14 IBM RS/6000 workstations
to run intensive computations
- Each group gets approximately 3GB of shared group storage (per share)
- Clients are IBM RS/6000 with 64MB RAM runing IBM AIX
4.x
NSCP1 Research Group Participants
- Experimental Nuclear Physics (enp) [2 shares]
- High Energy Physics (hep) [2 shares]
- Low Temperature Physics (lowtemp)
- Superconductivity Center (super)
- Dynamical Systems (dsat)
- AstroMetrology (am)
- Cosmic Ray (cosmic)
- Condensed Matter Theory - DasSarma (sst) [2 shares]
- Condensed Matter Theory - Yakovenko (yako)
- Surface Physics Group (spg)
- Elementary Particles (ep)
