Advanced Computational Simulation Center (ACSC)

Director:

Dr. C. J. Tymczak, Department of Physics

Staff:

Mission:

The ACSC is a center to promote and maintain advanced computational resources, with special attention to advanced parallel computer clusters, at Texas Southern University.

Current Computational Recourses:

ACSC has acquired a SGI Origin Parallel Super-Computer. The SGI Origin has a total of 128 nodes, each node consisting of the MIPS R12000 400 MHz processor. This computer cluster is shared memery. The total amount of shared memory is 64 GBytes, which is half a GByte per node. The memory is interconnected via Craylinks. We are still in the process of developing this resourse.

ACSC is also in the process of acquiring a 256 core Dell PowerEdge1950 blade servers. Each blade server will have two mother boards, each a Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5355, 2x4MBytes Cache, 2.66 GHz, 1.33 GHz Front Side Bus with total memory of 8 GByte. We are still in the process of developing this resourse.

Location:

The proposed computer center, ACSC, will be located in the Science and Technology Building in Room 151. Here is a preliminary plan.