Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

As part of the cutting edge collaborative partnership with Holden Innovation, VPAC's Centre for Computational Prototyping (CCP) provides expertise in Virtual Engineering, Manufacturing and High Performance Computing Services.

Our team of engineers are working on specialist R & D projects which involve the creation of new paradigms in designing, development and testing engineering innovation while reducing the costs of prototyping and manufacturing lead times.

Catering for the specific field of Computer Aided Engineering, Wembley, the Itanium 2 Cluster is equiped with FEM, CFD and Visulisation software including Nastran, LS-Dyna, Flunet, StarCD, Abaqus and EnSight.

Specifications

18 Itanium II CPUs with 68 Gig Ram and 2 Terabytes of Hard Disk Storage

Servers Details

10 HP rx2600 consisting of:

Management Node
1 x Itanium II 900 MHz 2 Gig RAM, 140 Gig SCSI HDD
Logon Node
1 x Itanium II 900 MHz 2 Gig RAM, 36 Gig SCSI HDD
Compute Nodes
8 x Dual Itanium II Madison 1.3GHz with 8 Gig RAM, 140 Gig SCSI HDD
External Storage
1 Terabyte
Backbone Interconnect
GigabitEthernet
Operating System
HP-UX 11.23 v2
Job Manager
Scalable OpenPBS
System Software
HP C/ANSI C HP Fortran 90 HP aC++
Applications Software
Fluent 6.1.22 Nastran 2001 Star CD v3150A LS-Dyna 970 Abaqus 6.3-1 Ensight 7.6d

Accounts

One personal account form is required for each person who will logon to the Itanium cluster. VPAC does not permit multi-user accounts. A personal account form will require the details of the person concerned, their signature (indicating their acceptance of the VPAC rules documented on the form).