Overview

AMPS is a high-performance computing cluster that provides computing power to solve complex simulations of crystals, fluids and structures.

The cluster consists of 20 blade servers in two IBM BladeCentre chassis.  Each blade has two Intel Harpertown 2.5GHz quad-core Xeon processors and 8GB of RAM, giving a total of 160 computational cores and 160GB of RAM.

Users login remotely and submit jobs from a IBM x3650 server. This is connected to a 9TB disk array which satisfies the significant storage requirements.

To make full use of the significant computational resources, a full suite of materials and molecular modelling packages are available.  Materials Studio allows a wide range of analyses from DFT at the quantum level to diffraction predictions of crystals. Classical molecular dynamics simulations are available using LAMMPS for standard systems and NAMD for biomolecular systems while micromagnetic modelling is provided by OOMMF.
 

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Location:

MSSI, UL