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IBM p690 SUR Grant

IBM p690 SUR Grant. UTEP’s Top Gun. High-Performance Computing / HPC at UTEP. Patricia J. Teller, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at El Paso. IBM SUR Grant. IBM Shared University Research Grant Facilitate advances in computation-intensive research

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IBM p690 SUR Grant

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  1. IBM p690 SUR Grant UTEP’s Top Gun High-Performance Computing / HPC at UTEP Patricia J. Teller, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at El Paso

  2. IBM SUR Grant IBM Shared University Research Grant • Facilitate advances in computation-intensive research • Research requires modeling, simulation, and/or data analysis

  3. IBM SUR Grant Collaborators • College of Engineering • College of Science • Departments • Computer Science • Electrical and Computer Engineering • Biological Sciences • Chemistry

  4. IBM SUR Grant Other Potential Users • Mathematics • Geological Sciences • Physics • Civil Engineering • Mechanical and Industrial Engineering • Business

  5. IBM SUR Grant Research Nava, Teller, Villa, Williams • IBM/UTEP collaborative research • Enhance IBM HPC platform performance • Identify ways to make applications run faster

  6. IBM SUR Grant Research Aley, Bain, Baldwin, Das, Stec • Life Sciences and Bioinformatics • An emerging strength of UTEP • Research advances can have significant scientific and societal impacts

  7. UTEP’s Top GunIBM eServer pSeries 690 • 8 processors • Capable of more than 40 billion calculations per second • 16 billion units (GBytes) of memory • 1 trillion units (TBytes) of disk storage • Sophisticated processor interconnect

  8. UTEP’s Top GunIBM eServer pSeries 690 All eight processors can be used to solve a problem collaboratively • More calculations per second • Solve the problem eight times faster • More accurate results • Solutions to larger problems

  9. HPC BenefitsIBM SUR Grant • Saves time • Improves quality and quantity of information available • More realistic models • Calculations once unthinkable • Faster processes, e.g., from design to production

  10. HPC BenefitsIBM SUR Grant • Reduces cost • Eliminate need for physical models • Test designs before “build” • Develop better processes • Produce better quality products, fewer rejects

  11. Biological SciencesUTEP / IBM SUR Grant Stephen Aley, Siddhartha Das • Study the genome of Giardia lamblia, a parasitic protozoan that is the major non-bacterial cause of diarrhea in North America

  12. Biological SciencesUTEP / IBM SUR Grant Lisa Bain, William Baldwin • Predict how toxic chemicals affect the reproduction, growth and development of organisms • Determine success of remediation at Superfund sites

  13. ChemistryUTEP / IBM SUR Grant Boguslaw Stec • Shorten drug design time • Design thermostable proteins, for example • enzymes in detergents • PCR enzymes that revolutionized recombinant DNA technology

  14. Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringUTEP / IBM SUR Grant • Investigate strength of carbon nanotubes • Theoretically stronger than steel titanium Jack Chessa • Possible applications • Stronger building materials • Smaller sensors • High-speed computer chips

  15. Civil EngineeringUTEP / IBM SUR Grant Soheil Nazarian • Simulate damage in pavement structures due to overweight trucks • Model the propagation of cracks within fresh concrete

  16. UTEP’s Top Gun VisionShared high-performance computing facility that grows, over time, with UTEP’sneeds • Increase research potential • Facilitate research advancements • Enhance curricula, in particular, in Colleges of Engineering and Science • Attract research support • Encourage multi-disciplinary research

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