The Department of Chemistry, its associated research institutes, and the University of Oregon as a whole, offer a variety of computing resources that suit the needs of experimentalists and theoreticians alike. Many laboratories have one or more dedicated Unix/Linux workstations, as well as computer-intensive data processors operating under the Windows or Macintosh platforms.

The Computing Center manages a large time-sharing system comprised of a Sun Enterprise 5500 multiprocessor Unix server, auxiliary AMD Opteron nodes, and a pair of production network-attached storage filers. In addition to the “bread-and-butter” applications, this system provides a host of development tools (C/C++, Fortran, Perl, and Tck/Tl, among others) and mathematical/statistical packages (including Mathematica, MatLab, Maple, R, SAS and SPlus), some of which are available as site-licensed software. Load-balancing and mirroring technologies work in tandem to deliver a resilient computing environment. The Computing Center also administers a 6-node dual AMD Opteron cluster for operations benefiting from parallelization.

The Integrated Cognitive Neuroscience, Informatics, and Computation (ICONIC) Grid provides a high-performance computing infrastructure that is ideally suited to the collaborative or independent work of scientists. The grid includes a 16-cpu SGI PRISM system, a 32-dual Intel Xenon cluster, four 8-cpu IBM p655 eServers and a 16-cpu IBM p690 eServer. The ICONIC grid uses a variety of technologies including Globus, MPI, and OpenMP, to harness the power of parallel computing. The Oregon Center for Optics is in the final stages of acquiring a state-of-the-art 85-node cluster, which will serve the needs of scientists in chemical physics as well as atomic and condensed matter physics.

The Department of Chemistry and associated institutes also count on the help of the Technical Science Shop, which provides first-rate consulting for software/hardware and builds custom-made systems. The University of Oregon has an award-winning network connectivity, which includes dedicated supercomputer ports, and hosts an NSF-sponsored logistical networking node, promoting the collaborative research efforts of scientists here and abroad.

 

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