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RESOURCES AT CTSF

Following are the resources currently available at CTSF. These are continuously upgraded to address the requirements as they emerge.

Hardware Resources | Software Resources

Hardware Resources

1.	PARAM Padma Compute Nodes
	Configuration	54 Nos. of 4-Way SMP nodes and 1 No. of 32-Way SMP node
	No. of Processors	248 (Power 4@1GHz)
	Aggregate Memory	0.5 TeraBytes (@ 8GB per node and 64GB per large SMP node)
	Internal Storage	4.5 TeraBytes (@ 72GB per node and 576GB per large SMP node)
	Operating System	AIX 5K / Linux
	Aggregate Peak Computing Power	1005 GFs (~1 TF)

2.	File Servers
	Configuration	6 Nos. of 4 Way SMP
	No. of Processors	24 (UltraSparc-III@900MHz)
	Aggregate Memory	96 GigaBytes
	Internal Storage	0.4 TeraBytes
	File System	QFS
	Operating System	Solaris 8

3.	Networks
	Primary	PARAMNet-II @ 2.5 Gbps Full Duplex
	Backup	Gigabit Ethernet @ 1 Gbps Full Duplex
	Management	10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet

4.	External Storage
	Storage Array	5 TeraBytes with 16 T3 arrays
	Tape Library	12 TeraBytes L700 (5 LTO Drives)
	Storage connected through a Fibre Channel	Storage Area Network consisting of 2GB FC 16 port switches and a Brocade 2800 FC Switch
5.	PCs/Workstations used as consoles to PARAM Padma

6.	Two Compaq Evo W6000 Graphic Workstations running Slackware Linux 9.0 and Windows 2000 and a number of user terminals on the LAN to connect the PARAM Padma cluster

7.	Laser Printer

Software Resources

1.	Operating System The Operating System of PARAM Padma is AIX 5L which supports multithreading and multiprocessing. This system V-style Unix provides a familiar development environment to the users. An optional Linux operating system is also provided.

2.	Compilers and Related Tools The following compilers and related tools are available on PARAM Padma: XL Fortran compiler and RTE 8.1 F90 Compiler F77 Compiler C Compiler 6.0, C for AIX C++ Compiler, Visualage C CAF90 Compiler - Parallel Fortran Compiler jointly developed by C-DAC and Apogee C-F77to90 - A Converter for Fortran77 to Fortran90 programs developed by C-DAC Complete gcc & gnu libtools

3.	Parallel Processing Libraries Message Passing Interface (MPI) - IBM PE (Parallel Environment) MPICH 13 - Public domain MPI, MPICH 1.2.4 for XL & gcc, g77 C-MPI - An optimized implementation of MPI for PARAM Padma by C-DAC KSHIPRA - Communication substrate developed by C-DAC

4.	Parallel Numerical Libraries IBM ESSL & PESSL SCALAPACK LINPACK PLAPACK PetSC PCOMA CCOMA benchmarking tools developed by C-DAC

6.	Program Development Tools DIViA - Set of tools for debugging a parallel program - developed by C-DAC Metric Advisor - Tools for software engineering metrics - developed by C-DAC dbx, xprofiler

7.	System Administration and Job Management Tools Cluster Monitoring Tools System Accounting Tool Dedicated Slot Booking Tool Load leveler 3.1 Veritas backup Tool (Net Backup 4.5)

8.	Visualization Tools Vis 5D Khoros Flow Vis Rasmol

9.	Application Code Resources (on PARAM Padma) Weather Forecasting - T80 - T170 - MM5 (Regional Forecast) - CSM (Climate System Model) Computational Fluid Dynamics - Navier Stokes for large simulation - External/Internal Flows Structural Mechanics - FEMCOMP (Stress Analysis) - INTEGRA (Modeling & Visualization) - NONLIN (Non-linear Stability Analysis) - FRACT 3D (Fracture Analysis) Bioinformatics - BLAST, FASTA, Smith Watermann (Genomic Sequencing) - AMBER, CHARMM, GROMACS (Molecular Modeling) - Problem Solving Environment - Genetic Algorithms Seismic Data Processing - WAVES (Modeling & Migration) - 1D/3D migration algorithms using wavelets Computational Science - INDMOL (Electronic Structure Model) - GAMESS (Large scale model) - Ab Initio (Molecular Dynamics)