Centre Resources
e-Science activities at Imperial College London are able to benefit from
£3.0M of funding made available through SRIF (Strategic Research Infrastructure
Funding). This funding will be used to provide additional computing,
storage and networking resources to those that already exist within
the LeSC.
The currently available resources within the London e-Science Centre are detailed
below. These resources are being made available to UK e-Science
community on a case by case basis.
LeSC's current resources include:
- Access Grid Node - a global collaborative visualisation
environment constructed using commodity technology
- Mars - 408 processor Opteron based beowulf cluster running RedHat Enterprise Edition Linux
- Viking - a 260 dual processor Intel/Linux cluster to support high
performance and high throughput computing
- Jupiter - a 24 processor shared memory
multiprocessor computer running Solaris 9
- Saturn - a 24 processor shared memory
multiprocessor computer running Solaris 5.8
- Atlas - a 34 processor Compaq / Quadrics
distributed memory cluster
- Pioneer - a 20 processor Athlon/Linux
cluster
Further information relating to
usage and how to apply for an account can be found
here.