Hardware

Hardware

Computer Science Department maintains hardware that is used for teaching and general research purposes. Other than the three labs for providing users Windows and Linux environments and software, the department also maintains several Symmetric multiprocessor systems and computational clusters:

Marvin:

• Hostname: marvin.cs.uh.edu
• Hardware: SMP with 8 AMD Opteron 846 (2.0GHz)processors and 32GB RAM.
• Vendor and Model: ThinkCP A5880HS
• Software: CentOS Linux 4.4,Patchscale compiler,Matlab, StarP, MPICH, GNAT, Visual Numerics IMSL Libraries for C and Fortran, PV-WAVE Product Family

Zeola:

• Hostname: zeola.cs.uh.edu
• Hardware: SMP system with 8 8218 (2.6GHz) dual core processors and 64GBDDR2 RAM.
• Vendor and Model: The PSSC Labs Octagon Powerwulf SMP
• Software: RHEL Release 4, Matlab, Visual Numerics IMSL Libraries for C and Fortran, PV-WAVE Product Family.

Brady:

• Hostname: brady.cs.uh.edu
• Hardware: SMP cluster, 12 SMP nodes, each node has 6 CPUs and 4.0 GB RAM.
• Architecture:MIPS 64bit
• Vendor and Model: SiCortex 072
• Software:Gentoo Linux derivation,and MPI.

Vcluster:

• Hostname: vcluster.uh.edu
• Hardware: 10 dual Apple nodes, each with dual PowerPC G4 processors of 2.0GHz and 2GB RAM
• Vendor and Model: The Apple Cluster
• Software: Mac OS X Serverv10.3
• Status: The cluster is currently being up graded and shall be available soon.

To apply an account on the SMP systems, send an email to babu@cs.uh.edu and faculty authorizati on is required for the account application.

Software

Software Packages, Libraries, and Tools
This page contains a list of third-party applications, public libraries, and tools that are available on departmental computer systems.