Research Computing

The Biomathematical Sciences Research Computing Center provides faculty and students with computer hardware, software, and programming expertise essential for their research. The staff provides assistance in areas such as large-scale computation, statistical computing, numerical analysis, simulations, and data transfer and analysis.

Supercomputing

The center operates several multiprocessor/large memory SGI servers, including an 8-processor/16GB Onyx 3400 with InfiniteReality3 Graphics, an 8-processor/12GB Origin 3200, and a 32-processor/16GB SGI Origin 3400. We also have three 02 workstations, a quad-processor Origin 200 server, and several Pentium III PCs and iMacs.

Software

Software is provided for such tasks as statistical analysis and numerical and symbolic computations. Some software packages currently provided are GCG, SAS, Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and custom built image processing software. Fortran and C/C++ compilers are available under Unix and WinNT platforms. Additionally there are MIPSpro Auto-Parallelizing compiler tools to take adavantage of the multiprocessor capabilities of the IRIX systems. Researchers have written programs for computational studies in many fields such as neuron visualization and simulation, sequence analysis, protein structural analysis, stochastic analysis of membranes, neural networks in pattern recognition problems in medicine, and differential geometric methods applied to the conformational analysis of biomolecules.

Staff of the Biomathematical Sciences Research Computing Center

Kevin Kelliher, Senior Systems Analyst
Sabera Hossain, Programmer/Analyst
Alfredo Rodriguez, C Programmer/Analyst