Scientific Computing at Coastal Carolina University

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The scientific computing research work at Coastal Carolina University is funded in part by NSF ATM-0213248, ATM-0521002, and NASA ROSES-06-IPY06-72.

Coastal Carolina University acquires new computer cluster The College of Natural and Applied Sciences recently acquired a new high-performance computer cluster that will be used in future research projects within the entire university. (more...) Ujcich wins Science Fair Ben Ujcich won the Sand Hills Regional Science Fair at Francis Marion University. He used the Middle Atmospheric Research Cluster (MARC) to investigate the increase in computational resources versus the increase resolution in improving the weather forecast. (more...) Roussev presents at Fall 2007 AGU Meeting Svetlin Roussev presented his work on setting up an operational weather forecast of the Carolinas at the Fall 2007 American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco during the week of 11-14 December 2007. (more...) Roussev visits the National Weather Center Svetlin Roussev and Var Limpasuvan visited the NOAA National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. They met with Dr. Ming Xue to discuss the ARPS application. (more...) James Perkins at CUR Mr. Perkins gave a presentaton at Capital Hill in Washington, D.C. at the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR). His work involved the extension of the ARPS model to model stratospheric processes. (more...)

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"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

The College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CNAS) has two high performance computer clusters (HPC). Initial funding for the acquisition of these clusters was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program. Students in Computer Science, Physics, Marine Science, Math, and Pre-Engineering are involved in managing the clusters, as well as in perfoming scientific work.

What is a Cluster?

Coastal Carolina University's high-performance computers allow a particular computation (i.e. weather, data manipulation, benchmarking, etc.) to be divided up among individual "nodes" collectively referred to as the "cluster" to achieve true simultaneous CPU processing. With the addition of nodes, the computational process for a program is greatly reduced in time due to the increase in processing power.

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Requesting Computational Time

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