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- Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering
- Cornell National Supercomputer Facility
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- Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering
- 265 Olin Hall
- Ithaca, NY 14853-5201
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- _E-_m_a_i_l: psfy@cornellf.tn.cornell.edu
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (607) 255-8686
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and
- Engineering at Cornell University (Theory Center), in
- cooperation with the National Science Foundation, IBM Cor-
- poration, and the State of New York, provides supercomputing
- resources for researchers nationwide.
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- The Center's primary supercomputing resource, the Cornell
- National Supercomputer Facility (CNSF), consists of two IBM
- 3090-600Es with 12 processors and attached minisupercomput-
- ers, giving a peak throughput of over 1.5 gigaflops. All
- systems fully support ANSI-standard Fortran-77. Each IBM
- 3090-600E has six vector facilities and gives a peak perfor-
- mance of 696 megaflops. Each has 256 megabytes of memory
- and 1 gigabyte of expanded storage. Some 75 gigabytes of
- disk storage in total are available for users. Each appli-
- cation may use up to 1 gigabyte of virtual memory. There is
- software support for parallelization and vectorization,
- including a vectorizing compiler and vector libraries.
- VM/XA SP (CMS) is the operating system; both interactive and
- batch modes are provided and parallel work can be done in
- either mode.
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- The full set of operating system functions and utilities is
- available for interactive and batch jobs. Communications
- are supported for a variety of dial-up terminals and TCP/IP
- networks. FORTRAN is the primary language, and is supported
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- June 30, 1989 NNSC Section 1.2, Page 1
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- in scalar, vector and parallel mode, with interactive debug
- and execution analysis. Scientific subroutine libraries are
- available, including some vectorized versions. HELP facili-
- ties and a Cornell set of TUTOR examples assist the user.
- There is extensive host support for the attached minisuper-
- computers. Graphics software supports both local hardware
- and remote facilities. A number of well known application
- packages are available, as well as a public disk of user
- contributed packages. A list of software is available upon
- request.
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- There are several graphics facilities located on the Cornell
- campus, connected to the CNSF via a high-speed channel run-
- ning over a fiber optic link. Each facility contains a wide
- range of graphics hardware, including sophisticated IBM
- graphics workstations, various UNIX (a trademark of AT&T
- Bell Labs) workstations, printers, and plotters. The cen-
- tral facility has equipment to allow researchers to produce
- computer-generated animation, either on 16mm film or on
- video tape.
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- The CNSF can be reached via NYSERNet, NSFNet, and associated
- regionals such as SURANet, Arpanet, Milnet (supporting
- remote login, file transfer, and mail), either directly or
- through a Gould frontend running Berkeley UNIX. The CNSF
- provides file transfer and batch job submission through Bit-
- net. Terminal traffic may access CNSF via direct dial-ups.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r
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- All proposals for time on the CNSF are subject to peer
- review through the Theory Center's National Allocations Com-
- mittee; researchers must submit an application for supercom-
- puter time directly to: Pat Colasurdo, User Accounts Coordi-
- nator at the address and phone number above.
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- June 30, 1989 NNSC Section 1.2, Page 2
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