Other Information

  • UCF is a member of SURAgrid
  • STOKES is funded in part by the U.S. ARMY RDECOM (Research, Development and Engineering Command).
If you have any questions, please contact the systems administrator:
Sergio Tafur
Phone: 407-882-0206
Email: tafur@physics.ucf.edu

About STOKES

STOKES, an IBM High Performance Computing cluster, is located at the University of Central Florida in Research Park. Researchers at the university are able to utilize this cluster and it is hoped that this opportunity will extend beyond the realm of UCF. The project is headed by Dr. Randall Shumaker and Dr. Brian Goldiez, with Sergio Tafur as the systems administrator.

Hardware on STOKES

  • Computational Speed: 6.6 Trillion Floating Point Operations Per Second
  • Total Cores: 648 at 3.0/2.8 GHz
  • Total Memory: 1.392 TB RAM
  • Raw Storage: 43 TB
  • 73 Blades with Dual Xeon Quad Core Processors (584 Cores at 3.0 GHz)
  • 4 Virtualization Nodes with 4 Dual-Core AMD Opteron Model 8220 each(32 Cores at 2.8 GHz
    • 32 GB Memory per Node
    • Dual GPU at 650 MHz Nvidia 9800 GX2 Graphics Card per node
      • Memory: 1 GB per card
  • Operating System: RHEL 5.0
  • Interconnect: 1Gbps Ethernet and 20Gbps Infiniband
  • Network Storage: Dual Node GPFS
  • Cooling: 12 Tons AC
  • 5 Racks

Software on STOKES

Current Cluster Compilers and Software

  • Intel C++ Professional Edition for Linux
  • Intel Fortran Compiler Professional Edition For Linux
  • PGI Compiler for Linux
  • Intel Math Kernal Library for Linux
  • IBM General Parallel File System for Linux Multiplatform (GPFS)

Supported Software

  • Matlab with supported software:
    • Simulink
    • Communications Blockset
    • Communications Toolbox
    • Distributed Computer Toolbox
    • Signal Processing Blockset
    • Signal Processing Toolbox
    • Stateflow
    • Distributed Computing Engine
  • Wien2k
  • Gaussian
  • MEEP
  • MPB
  • CPMD
  • Chemshell
  • Crystal
  • Charmm
  • GaussView
  • AOmix
  • ADF
    • ADFBand
    • ADF and ADFBand GUI
    • GEN NBO 5.0