William A. Lester Group
Principle Investigator: William A. Lester
Primary Contact: Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Secondary Contact: Brian Austin
Overview
The Ganita Cluster (pictured on the left) is a 46 processor Linux cluster
that began production use in
September 2004. It is used to develop the Quantum
Monte Carlo (QMC) method or application to the electronic structure of
atoms and molecules.
Cluster Description
Master Server Node consisting of:
2 ea. AMD Athlon 2800+ MP processors
Tyan Thunder K7X Pro S2469GN motherboard
4 x 1GB PC2100 ECC Registered DDR RAM
40GB 7200 RPM EIDE hard disk
3Ware Escalade 8506-8 SATA RAID controller
8 ea. 200GB Maxtor 7200RPM SATA disks
Floppy and CDROM
500W power supply
Chenbro RM215 2U rackmount enclosure
23 Compute Nodes each with:
2 ea. AMD Athlon 2800+ MP processors
Tyan Thunder K7X Pro S2469GN motherboard
2 x 1GB PC2100 ECC Registered DDR RAM
40GB 7200 RPM EIDE hard disk
Floppy and CDROM
350W power supply
Chenbro RM11702 1U rackmount enclosure
Networks:
Cluster Network: Netgear FS524T 24 port FastEthernet switch
Admin Network: Netgear GS524T 24 port Gigabit switch
Console Network: Cyclades ACS-32 32 port terminal server
Software
Operating System: Centos 3.1
Cluster Distribution: Warewulf 2.1
Scheduler: Sun Grid Engine 5.3
Applications:
Zori - An open source Quantum Monte
Carlo program
Q-MagiC - An general
purpose QMC code also called QuantumMagiC
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