Biomolecular Computing and Graphics Facility

The Biomolecular Computing and Graphics Facility (BCGF) includes 6 new (2003) Linux workstations, each with dual AMD Athlon MP 2400+ processors and 1 gigabyte of RAM, and an SGI R12000 dual processor Octane graphics workstation. E-mail and web services are handled through a new server consisting of dual Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz processors, 1 gigabyte of RAM, and 130 gigabytes of RAID 5 disk storage. Two additional servers with identical configurations function as the Computational Biology Resource for the Biomolecular Resource Facility and in file hosting operations, respectively. The BCGF also includes a 16-node Linux cluster, with each node having dual AMD Athlon MP 2400+ processors and a gigabyte of RAM, all connected through a high-speed gigabit Ethernet switch. The cluster has over 1 terabyte of RAID 5 disk space, 18 gigabytes of RAM, and a theoretical peak performance of 120 gigaflops. In addition, the DEAC cluster has 140 computational nodes, located and managed on the Reynolda Campus, and is available to all CSBWFU investigators. The compute nodes are IBM Blade Center servers, totalling 1428 cores, 4.8TB memory, and 76TB of disk storage space. Nodes are interconnected via infiniband or gigabit ethernet. Updated hardware configurations and resources can be found here.