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Computational Science at Otterbein College

Dr. David G. Robertson and Dr. Uwe Trittmann
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Otterbein College

Dr. Joseph R. Sachleben and Dr. Dean Johnston
Department of Chemistry
Otterbein College

Summary
The 8-node cluster will have a major impact on both research and teaching in the sciences at Otterbein. A number of faculty members in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics have research programs with a significant computational component. Many of these problems are well suited for parallelization on distributed-memory or distributed-shared-memory platforms. A local cluster will significantly enhance these research efforts, providing resources for algorithm and code development prior to deployment on larger systems at regional and national computing centers.

These faculty members are also currently developing new courses in computational methods at Otterbein. (As presently envisioned, there will be a joint Chemistry/Physics practicum in mathematical methods, including a significant computational component, as well as a stand-alone course in the Physics Department on computational physics, including parallel computing and visualization.) The proposed system will provide an ideal platform to support these courses, allowing our students to obtain experience on a cutting-edge system of the same type as many of the most powerful computers in the world.

Installation Date
TBD

Configuration
8 node (16 733 MHz Intel Itanium processors) SGI 750 System