Infrastructure to Support Massively Computing With Adaptive Unstructured Grids
Kenneth E. Jansen, Mark S. Shephard, Joseph E. Flaherty · 1998
This contract provided $143,500 from the AFOSR combined with $61,500 of cost sharing directly from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the procurement of computer hardware to facilitate AFOSR sponsored research under the following research: (1) Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent flow over an airfoil using unstructured grids (Grant # F49620-97-1-0043) and (2) Crystal growth simulations and (3) parallel adaptive computations. To further leverage these fund they were combined with an additional $208,000 from a National Science Foundation research infrastructure grant (plus an additional $40,000 in Rensselaer matching for that grant) and an additional $138,000 from Silicon Graphics Inc. to purchase the following very substantial computational facility from Silicon Graphics Inc.: 1. 8 R10000 processors, 2. 3.5 Gigabytes shared memory (addressable by all processors), 3. 18 Gigabytes fast access hard disk, 4. Onyx2 InfiniteReality graphics engine, 5. 24 inch super-wide monitor, 6. Fakespace virtual reality stereoscopic visualization system (6' by 8' table with a 6' by 4.5' visualization surface that can be tilted to any angle), 7. Indigo2 workstation with 1 R10000 processor, 8. 320 Megabytes memory, 9. 9 Gigabytes hard disk, 10. Solid impact Graphics engine, 11. 20 inch Multi-Scan monitor.