The Center for Fluid Mechanics and the Department of Applied Mathematics provide a variety of computing systems to meet our users needs. More information about our facilities is available below.
The "old" SP2 parallel computer: Our first IBM sp2-thin2 at 37 Manning. DOWN.
The "new" SP parallel computer: We have several different SP nodes: 4-cpu PowerPC 604e Silver nodes, 2-cpu Power3 Winterhawk nodes and 8-cpu Power3 Nighthawk nodes.
Beowulf Linux clusters: Linux systems used for pure computing purposes.
Workstations: Standard user workstations.
Servers: We have many different servers fulfilling different roles ranging from web-pages to 3D graphics and just plain old compute power.
X-Terminals: To provide access to more users we have dozens of dedicated graphical terminals and many older Sun and SGI systems that have been converted to function as terminals.
Network: The Department of Applied Math and the Center for Fluid Mechanics span 3 buildings and are connected by a high-bandwidth network.
CRUNCH group machines: Facilities within the CRUNCH group include desktop computers, as well as clusters for serial and parallel jobs.
The CAVE:
The Center for Fluid Mechanics in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science
here at Brown have been working together on visualization projects. The CAVE is a eight-foot cubicle with high-resolution stereo graphics.