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Computing Services
The EESI Environmental Computing Facility (ECF) provides general computing support with an emphasis on the support of High Performance Computing (HPC), and in particular support for numerical modeling and large volume mass storage. The ECF has a small professional staff housed on a floor of the Earth-Engineering Science building that includes a 1200 square foot raised-floor modern computing room. The computing room is served with a 100 kVA UPS. The ECF staff directly supports dozens of Sun workstations and servers spread throughout EMS.
The ECF also serves as college resource by providing consulting to staff in other college departments. HPC is supported with a Cray SV1-1/16-4 (16 CPUs, 4GB memory) and an IBM RS/6000 SP (8 4-way Winterhawk-2 nodes for 32 CPUs, 16GB memory). Mass storage support is provided with an Storagetek Powderhorn tape robot with 4 9840 tape drives. The Powderhorn can hold 6000 cartridges. Current uncompressed capacity of the 9840 cartridges is 20GB, soon to double. The facility is connected to the commodity Internet and Internet2 via ATM and Gigabit Ethernet.