THE_ELEMENTS
A Distributed Parallel Computer
[Painting by David Rankine]
THE_ELEMENTS is a multiple computer for supporting the project on Classical
and Quantum Mechanical Molecular Dynamics of
TCCC.
This distributed parallel system is an effort to create large computational
power by accumulating low cost CPUs, memory and data storage using public
domain software as far as possible. The current composition of The_Elements
is eight dual Pentium II systems with cpus at 350 anf 450 MHz, total memory
5GBytes, total hard discs 57 GBytes and all these connected with a fast
ethernet switch of 100 Mbits/s.
The system was developed by Dr. Manolis Founargiotakis (founar@alcyone.cc.uch.gr) and
is currently maintained by Manolis Giatromanolakis
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
PHASE 1 (JULY 1998) - Fire / Water
/ Air / Earth
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CPUs: Eight Pentium II CPUs at 350 MHz - Cash Memory 512 KBytes
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Motherbords: QDI Brilliant V, Chipset INTEL 440 BX 100MHz
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Memory: 2.048 GBytes (4x512) (100 MHz SDRAM)
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Discs: 21 GBytes (5x4.2) (WESTERN DIGITAL ULTRA WIDE SCSI)
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Network: Bay 350T, 100 Mbits Switched, Backbone 1Gbits, 16 ports
PHASE 2 (APRIL 1999) - Hydrogen / Helium
/ Nitrogen(*) / Oxygen(*)
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CPUs: Eight Pentium II CPUs at 450 MHz - Cash Memory 512 KBytes
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Motherbords: P2B-D, ASUS, Chipset INTEL 440 BX 100MHz
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Memory: 3.072 GBytes (2x512+2x1024) (100 MHz SDRAM)
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Discs: 36.4 GBytes (4x9.1) (IBM, ULTRA WIDE2 SCSI)
TOTAL
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CPUs: Sixteen Pentium II
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Memory: 5 GBytes
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Discs: 57 GBytes
SOFTWARE
PROJECTS
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Non-Linear Classical Mechanical Analysis of Molecular Systems: Periodic
Orbit Multiple Shooting Algorithms POMULT
(L)
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Molecular Quantum Dynamics: Periodic Orbit Assisted Grid Solutions of Time
Dependent Schroedinger Equation PO-TDSE
(L)
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Molecular Electronic Structure Calculations (Quantum Chemistry) Packages:
GAUSSIAN94,
GAUSSIAN98 , (C)
MOLPRO98
(C)
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Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces and Clusters
Person to contact: Prof. S.
C. Farantos
FUNDING
The project was financed by the Ministry of Education within the program
EPEAEK for postgraduate studies in Applied
Molecular Spectroscopy.
The cost of The_Elements was :
Phase 1: ~7,000,000 Greek Drachmas (~$25000)
Phase 2: ~5,000,000 Greek Drachmas (~$17000)
BENCHMARKS
HOW_TO_RUN
Pages maintained by SCF (farantos@iesl.forth.gr)
Last update: Thu Apr 29 19:34:19 EDT 1999