Margulis Research Group

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

UCLA

Facilities

The research in our group relies heavily on numerical computing for modeling and remote sensing data analysis. In addition to a set of networked desktop workstations, the primary computational resource we use is a Beowulf Cluster:

Hydro Cluster

The Hydro cluster is made up of a number of AMD Opteron multi-processor nodes running a linux operating system. The nodes are configured to run the typical high performance computing applications needed in our research projects.

The Hydro Cluster hardware configuration is as follows:

An interactive head node with:
Two Opteron 2.2 GHz processors (1U rack mount)
4GB RAM
Gigabit ethernet (GigE)/Infiniband (IB) networking
80 GB Hard drive

20 IB batch nodes, each with:
Two AMD Opteron processors
4GB RAM
GigE/IB networking
80 GB Hard drive

8 GigE batch nodes, each with:
Four AMD Opteron processors
8GB RAM
GigE/IB networking
80 GB Hard drive

Mellanox 24 Port IB switch
40 port GigE switch

RAID server nodes, with:
22 TB of storage