Infrastructure to Support Massively Computing With Adaptive Unstructured Grids

摘要

This contract provided $143,500 from the AFOSR combined with $61,500 of cost sharing directly from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the procurement of computer hardware to facilitate AFOSR sponsored research under the following research: (1) Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent flow over an airfoil using unstructured grids (Grant Number F49620-97-1-0043) and (2) Crystal growth simulations and (3) parallel adaptive computations. To further leverage these fund they were combined with an additional $208,000 from a National Science Foundation research infrastructure grant (plus an additional $40,000 in Rensselaer matching for that grant) and an additional $138,000 from Silicon Graphics Inc. to purchase the following very substantial computational facility from Silicon Graphics Inc.: (1) 8 R10000 processors, (2) 3.5 Gigabytes shared memory (addressable by all processors), (3) 18 Gigabytes fast access hard disk, (4) Onyx2 InfiniteReality graphics engine, (5) 24 inch super-wide monitor, (6) Fakespace virtual reality stereoscopic visualization system (6' by 8' table with a 6' by 4.5' visualization surface that can be tilted to any angle), (7) Indigo2 workstation with 1 R10000 processor, (8) 320 Megabytes memory, (9) 9 Gigabytes hard disk, (10) Solid impact Graphics engine, (11) 20 inch Multi-Scan monitor.