MRFN - Materials Research Facilities Network

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The MRSEC Facilities Network is a nationwide partnership of NSF supported MRSEC centers designed to provide support to researchers in the broad area of Materials Research in academic, government and industrial laboratories around the world.

Facility Director: � � � � Professor Glenn H. Fredrickson (ghf at mc-cam.ucsb.edu)
Facility Managers: � � � Jeffrey J. Barteet (barteet at mrl.ucsb.edu), Linda Hall (lhall at mrl.ucsb.edu)

FACILITY FEATURES
Hardware

Two computational 'Beowulf' clusters, one composed of 40 Pentium 4 3.2Ghz PCs and the other made from 32 AMD 2800+ PCs with Myrinet.
A cluster of workstations has been setup as a dedicated compute cluster - i.e. a type of Beowulf machine. The cluster is comprised of:
- A dual-CPU 2Ghz Xeon Head Node
- 58 nodes with 3.2Ghz CPUs and 2GB RAM
- A fast ethernet switch connecting the nodes via a private network
The computers are running Fedora Linux 'Core 1'.

Software

A large collection of programs and utilities, including:
- Gaussian03 from Gaussian, Inc.
- IDL from Research Systems
- Mathematica from Wolfram Research

The MRL is a National Science Foundation funded center - and it's important that published work include an acknowledgment of support.

Please note that UC has instituted a policy for Electronic Mail usage. As a user on the MRL cluster you are required to review the policy.

Send mail to computerhelp@mrl.ucsb.edu in case you have problems and/or suggestions.