Interactive and Large Scale Supercomputing Simulations in Nonlinear Optics

Abstract

The DURIP '99 initiative award was used primarily far a major upgrade of a dual rack ONYX2 Silicon Graphics system. The upgrade consisted in purchasing 8 of the newest generation of 400 MHz CPUs, converting one of ONYX2 racks into a fully loaded 16-processor Origin 2000/2400 system and moving both high performance graphics heads into the top half of the remaining ONYX2 rack. The existing 14 processor system consisted of a mix of 6 195 MHz and 8250 MHz CPUs running in a system with 6 Gigabytes of memory. In addition, Silicon Graphics replaced our existing mix of 14 195 and 250 MHz CPUs by 14300 MHz CPUs at no added cost. The new system provides a state-of-the-art graphical visualization and computing capability. It also offers cost-effective upgrade route. The reconfigured in-house supercomputing engine provides a significant boost to our past and ongoing AFOSR-funded research projects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 2001
Accession Number
ADA393010

Entities

People

  • Jerome V. Moloney

Organizations

  • University of Arizona

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Amplifiers
  • Femtosecond Time
  • Graphics
  • Laser Pulses
  • Lasers
  • Light Pulses
  • Light Sources
  • Materials
  • Message Encoding
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Optics
  • Semiconductor Lasers
  • Semiconductors
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Research Science/Academic Research