Computing Facilities
The Department of Physics & Astronomy has several computing resources available for use by faculty, students and staff. We currently have three Linux high performance computers (HPC’s) in the department.
The Galileo cluster is primarily used for small single node parallel jobs and single processor batch jobs. It consists of 4 nodes with 376 processor threads, 1.92 TB RAM, 4992 Cuda cores. The individual node specifications are:
1 Dell R720xd with 384 GB of RAM, two Xeon E5-2570 processors, and 8 TB of disk space.
1 Dell R730 with 512 GB of RAM, two Xeon E5-2698 processors, and 8 TB of disk space.
1 Dell R730 with 512 GB of RAM, two Xeon E5-2698 processors, 2 Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU’s, and 8 TB of disk space.
1 Dell R930 with 512 GB of RAM, four Xeon E7-8880 processors, and 8 TB of disk space.
The Plasmon cluster, currently in use for The Center for Nano-Optics (CeNO ) data analysis consists 3 nodes, 272 processor threads, 1.28 TB RAM. The individual node specifications are:
2 Dell R730xd’s with 384 GB of RAM, two Xeon E5-2670 processors, and 8 TB of disk space each.
1 Dell R930 with 512 GB of RAM, four Xeon E7-8880 processors, and 8 TB of disk space.
The GSU Astroinformatics (GAIN) cluster named Harlow is for running highly parallel code and consist of 30 compute nodes, with 480 processors (hyperthreading disabled), 2.8 TB RAM, a storage node with 30 TB of disk space, 1 login node and 1 head node.This cluster utilizes a Mellanox FDR 56 Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect to connect the nodes for computing. The compute node specifications are:
30 Dell R440’s with 96 GB of RAM, two Xeon Silver 4110 processors each.
In addition to departmental resources, Georgia State offers three enterprise based high performance computing resources for researchers (Principle Investigators) use. Accounts must be requested by Principle Investigators (PI) who can also manage non-PI requested accounts for students. Each high performance computer has specific data processing storage limitations, please see Research Computing.
Grid Computing
Georgia State University is an active member of SURA, the Southeastern University Research Organization.
A consortium of over sixty universities, SURA operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility for the U.S. Department of Energy through Jefferson Science Associates – a SURA/Computer Sciences Corporation joint venture dedicated to supporting research activities. See Grid Computing.
The GSU library houses a collection in excess of one million bound volumes plus extensive
microfilm and government document holdings. The library subscribes to more than 250 journals in the physics/astrophysics/astronomy area.