This is an evolving document which outlines the various computing facilities available within the School. Information includes:
| Workstations: | newt, lizard, astro, ugrad, bat, goliath, and Vislab machines |
| Miscellaneous: | Zip drive (250MB), CD-R/RW (650-700MB read/write), DVD-ROM, |
| Exabyte EXB-8500 tape drive (5GB), DDS-3 DAT drive, colour scanner | |
| with automatic document feeder, colour film scanner | |
| Terminals: | Distributed X11 terminals with 15/17/19-inch colour displays |
| Mac Lab: | 16 Macintosh IIvx's |
| Printers: | Seikosha BP5420, HP LaserJet 4000N, HP LaserJet 4050N, HP LaserJet 4100N, |
| HP LaserJet 5MP, HP CopyJet M, Epson Stylus Photo 760. For locations of | |
| printers refer to the Workstation Guide at http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/guide | |
| External: | APAC sc, ac3 clare/mudgee/hunter/jacobi/napier |
| NIC: | clare, mudgee, hunter, jacobi, napier, lizard |
| Image processing: | lizard, bat, vislab |
| Multimedia: | goliath |
| E-mail/Web | newt, ugrad |
| Staff: | newt |
| Postgraduates: | newt |
| Undergraduates: | ugrad |
| Accounts: | As noted in the workstation tables below |
| Help: | http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/guide |
| http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/physoc | |
| help@phys.unsw.edu.au | |
| Information: | Vladimir Dzuba, Rm 59C, x4634 |
| Kristien Clayton, Rm W106B, x6318 | |
| David Jonas, Rm W106B, x6318 |
| Newt | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | newt.phys.unsw.edu.au |
| Description: | General purpose workstation with Internet browsing and e-mail facilities |
| numerical computing jobs may be run but only at nice +10 | |
| Specs: | Dual AMD MP 2000+ 1600MHz, Unix workstation, 3072MB RAM, |
| 468GB disk, CD-RW | |
| Software: | BLAS, LAPACK, Maple, Mathematica, C, C++, Intel F90, GNU F77 |
| See also http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/software | |
| Availability: | Staff and postgraduate |
| Accounts: | Physics IT Support (help@phys.unsw.edu.au) |
| Application form (PDF 75KB) |
| Astro | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | astro.phys.unsw.edu.au |
| Description: | Dedicated primarily to high-performance graphics image usage |
| Specs: | Dual AMD MP 2000+ 1600MHz, Unix workstation, 3072MB RAM, |
| 1024GB disk, DVD-RAM, EXB-8500 tape drive (5GB) | |
| Software: | IRAF, C, C++, Fortran77, IDL |
| See also http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/software | |
| Availability: | Staff and postgraduate, Astrophysics and Optics |
| Accounts: | Melinda Taylor (melinda@phys.unsw.edu.au) |
| Lizard | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | lizard.phys.unsw.edu.au |
| Description: | High performance workstation intended for large-scale computing projects |
| Specs: | Compaq XP 1000, 500MHz EV6, UNIX, 1152MB RAM, 1 Gflop peak, |
| 50GB disk, CD-ROM | |
| Software: | NAG, LAPACK, Maple, IDL, C, C++, Fortran |
| See also http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/software | |
| Availability: | Restricted to research use for those with computationally intensive and image processing requirements. Due to the NIC profile of this host no e-mail or Internet browsing capabilities are provided. |
| Accounts: | Physics IT Support (help@phys.unsw.edu.au) |
| Application form (PDF 75KB) |
| Ugrad | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | ugrad.phys.unsw.edu.au |
| Description: | General purpose workstation. Carries e-mail facilities, a Web browser, School notices, etc |
| Specs: | AMD XP 1600+ 1400MHz, Unix, 512MB DDR RAM, |
| 35GB Ultra160 SCSI disk | |
| Software: | Maple, C, C++, Fortran77 |
| See also http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/software | |
| Availability: | Undergraduate |
| Accounts: | Physics IT Support (help@phys.unsw.edu.au) |
| Application form (PDF 75KB) |
| Goliath | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | Not applicable |
| Description: | Multimedia workstation for image manipulation, document/film scanning |
| Specs: | AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1400MHz, Windows 2000 Workstation, 512MB DDR RAM, 70GB Ultra160 SCSI disk, |
| CD-R/RW, DVD-ROM, Zip 250MB, flatbed scanner, stacked document | |
| scanner, film scanner for mounted and unmounted film | |
| Software: | Photoshop, Acrobat, Omnipage Pro |
| See also http://help.phys.unsw.edu.au/doc/software | |
| Availability: | Staff and postgraduate |
| Accounts: | Physics IT Support (help@phys.unsw.edu.au) |
| Bat | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | bat.phys.unsw.edu.au |
| Description: | For image processing |
| Specs: | Sun Ultra2, 128MB RAM, 22GB disk |
| Software: | IRAF, FIGARO |
| Availability: | Astrophysics, staff |
| Accounts: | John Webb, Melinda Taylor (melinda@phys.unsw.edu.au) |
| Vislab | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | electra.phys.unsw.edu.au (electra, boadicea, zenobia) |
| Description: | The VisLab node in Rm 55 consists of 5 Silicon Graphics workstations used for |
| high-performance graphics processing. This facility was procured at the initiative | |
| of Paul Curmi, and is dedicated primarily to image processing in biophysics. It is | |
| available to other users for graphics processing or background numerical | |
| computation. | |
| Specs: | |
| Software: | SGI Visualisation software |
| Availability: | Biophysics, staff |
| Accounts: | Paul Curmi (pmgc@phys.unsw.edu.au) |
| Clare | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | clare.ac3.edu.au |
| Description: | Large scale facility for academic research |
| Specs: | 64 processor SGI Origin 2400, 32 GB of cc:NUMA memory, 50 Gflops, |
| 200GB local disk plus 1TB NFS shared from mudgee.ac3 | |
| Software: | Fortran90, C, C++, gcc, gmake, gdb, emacs, bash, tcsh, OpenMP, PVM, MPI, |
| vendor LAPACK and FFT | |
| Availability: | Research |
| Accounts: | http://www.ac3.edu.au/applications.html |
| Help: | http://www.ac3.edu.au |
| Sys Admin: | Dr. Russell Standish (r.standish@unsw.edu.au) |
| High Performance Computing Group | |
| Division of Information Services | |
| University of New South Wales | |
| Sydney 2052 |
| Mudgee | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | mudgee.ac3.edu.au |
| Description: | Large scale facility for academic research. It is ideal for |
| floating-point and/or memory-bandwidth limited code, PVM and MPI. | |
| Specs: | 68 processor IBM SP2, 64 GB of memory, 76.8 GFlops, 1 TB local disk |
| shared to clare.ac3 | |
| Software: | Fortran90, High Performance Fortran, C, C++,gcc, gmake, gdb, emacs, bash, |
| tcsh, OpenMP, PVM, MPI, | |
| vendor LAPACK and FFT | |
| Availability: | Research |
| Accounts: | http://www.ac3.edu.au/applications.html |
| Help: | http://www.ac3.edu.au |
| Sys Admin: | Dr. Russell Standish (r.standish@unsw.edu.au) |
| High Performance Computing Group | |
| Division of Information Services | |
| University of New South Wales | |
| Sydney 2052 |
| Hunter | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | hunter.ac3.edu.au |
| Description: | Large scale facility for academic research. Hunter is typically |
| accessed via the front end host pokolbin.ac3. | |
| Specs: | 2 processor NEC SX5, 12GB shared memory, 16 Gflops |
| Software: | Fortran90, C, gcc [pokolbin], gmake, gdb, emacs, bash, tcsh, |
| vendor LAPACK and FFT | |
| Availability: Research | |
| Accounts: | http://www.ac3.edu.au/applications.html |
| Help: | http://www.ac3.edu.au |
| Sys Admin: | Dr. Russell Standish (r.standish@unsw.edu.au) |
| High Performance Computing Group | |
| Division of Information Services | |
| University of New South Wales | |
| Sydney 2052 |
| sc | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | sc.apac.edu.au |
| Description: | A high performance computing resource provided by the |
| the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). | |
| As of this writing the system is one of the largest in the | |
| Southern Hemisphere. The role of the Fujitsu VPP has been | |
| subsumed by this facility. | |
| Specs: | 46 x 4-way SMP ES40 AlphaServer system, 1 Tflop, 4.5 TB disk |
| Software: | Fortran77, Fortran90, F77/OpenMP, F90/OpenMP, ladebug, BLAS, LAPACK, |
| Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, Nag, Scalapack, GNUplot, IDL, PGplot, | |
| Renderman | |
| Availability: | Research |
| Accounts: | http://nf.apac.edu.au/accounts |
| Help: | http://nf.apac.edu.au |
| Sys Admin: | Dr. Bob Gingold (bob.gingold@anu.edu.au) |
| Head, ANU Supercomputing Facility | |
| Leonard Huxley Bldg, Mills Rd | |
| ANU | |
| Canberra ACT 0200 |
| Napier | |
| SSH/Telnet address: | napier.pvl.edu.au |
| Description: | A large multi-processor workstation system, operated as a joint venture between |
| NSW universities by the New South Wales Centre for Parallel Computing (NSWCPC, the | |
| role of which is now subsumed by ac3). The facility is located in the Parallel | |
| Computing and Visualisation Laboratory (PVL) | |
| at the Australian Technology Park (ATP) at Redfern. | |
| Specs: | SGI Power Challenge IRIX system, 20 R10000 processors, 2GB RAM, 10Gflop, |
| 70GB disk | |
| Software: | MIPSPro compilers for C, C++, Fortran77 and Fortran90 |
| Availability: | Research |
| Accounts: | http://nswcpc.pvl.edu.au/app-form.html |
| Help: | http://nswcpc.pvl.edu.au |
| Sys Admin: | Dr. Russell Standish (r.standish@unsw.edu.au) |
| High Performance Computing Group | |
| Division of Information Services | |
| University of New South Wales | |
| Sydney 2052 |
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