The MDRCF provides state-of-the-art computing facilities to expedite research by both faculty and students within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. The funds to set up the facility are provided jointly by The National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Academic Research Infrastructure (ARI) program, and Florida Atlantic University; a total of some $500,000 has been made available. The first workstations were purchased during the summer 1996 and went on-line and available to users in the Fall 1996.
At present the MDRCF comprises a total of nine machines; a cluster of four Digital AlphaStation 600-5/333's, two Digital AlphaStation 500/500's and a Digital Ultimate Workstation (with two Alpha 21164/533 processors), a Silicon Graphics Indigo2 with Maximum Impact Graphics and a Silicon Graphics Octane/MXE (RS10000/250MHz processor).
With SPECint95 benchmarks of 9.78/15.0/16.1 and SPECfp95 benchmarks of 13.4/20.4/30.5, the Alpha Workstations 600/500/Ultimate provide high performance 'number crunching' opportunities; the Silicon Graphics Indigo2 and Octane/MXE offer excellent graphics, visualization and animation capabilities. So the combination affords users in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science very high-quality computing power for a wide range of applications.
The machines are currently located in SE261 but since they are accessible over the internet, keys to the room are strictly limited to those persons who actually need direct access.
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Put together by RGJ (5/14/97) and updated (8/20/98).
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