Topic Number 6: Infrastructure to Enable High Performance Computing
Abstract
The following document describes the use of the funds provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to create a high performance laboratory for parallel fluid dynamics calculations. In the months following the submission of the proposal a sizable cost-sharing commitment was made by the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the School of Engineering at Stanford University which allowed for a substantial increase in the scope of the equipment to be purchased. A large part of the equipment is already in place, and the final pieces will be arriving during the following weeks. The equipment acquired with the combination of the funds presented above includes the following: (1) Origin2009 Compute Server; and (2) Silicon Graphics Octane Graphics Workstations. The intent of this proposal was to facilitate the development of parallel computing methods for computational fluid dynamics calculations. Initially we had foreseen the acquisition of high performance workstations to pre- and post-process the data obtained from simulations performed on DoD supercomputers. With the new equipment it is now possible to, in addition, perform the initial development and debugging of the programs in-house. This mode of operation enables us to use DoD facilities in a truly productive fashion, and it avoids the long time delays during the early development stages due to network connections and the usual batch environment of today's supercomputers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 28, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA376889
Entities
People
- Antony Jameson
- George S. Springer
Organizations
- Stanford University