Computing Facilities Guide

Physics Computing

School of Physics

University of New South Wales

This is an evolving document which outlines the various computing facilities available within the School. Information includes:

Facilities

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

Suggestions

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

School Workstations

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)

External Facilities

ac3

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

APAC

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

Other

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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