High-performance Computing Cluster (HPC) (Operational)

Capabilities and Key paremeters:

Currently it consists of 36 (8-core) IntelXeon E5-2650 v2 and v3 processors (560 cores in total), interconnected with 56Gb FDR infiniband.
Memory capacity: 64 Gb DDR4 EEC
Storage: 64 Terabytes

Operating system: Centos 6.0
Software: Intel compiler, OpenMPI
Scientific computing software: VASP, CPMD, WIEN2k, CP2K, LAMMPS, DLPOLY, GULP

Potential research fields:

Computational Physics on multi-scales –from first-principles to mesoscale modeling.

Directions: band-structure calculation,structure prediction,  phase transitionsof materials, liquid-liquid transition, spectroscopy studies,  new algorithm development.

Contact: Howard Sheng, hw.sheng@hpstar.ac.cn.