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Facilities jojodecasa 2020-01-24T12:52:17+00:00

Modelling and experimental facilities

  • MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING

  • MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION

  • MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING

High performance computing

IRIDIS 5 supercomputer


  • 464 compute nodes with dual 2.0 GHz Intel Skylake processors.
  • Each compute node has 40 CPUs per node with 192 GB of DDR4 memory.
  • 20 Nvidia Tesla V100 enterprise graphics cards.
  • 40 Nvidia GTX 1080Ti consumer graphics cards.
  • 4 high-memory nodes, each with 64 cores, 768 GB of RAM and 9 TB of local HDD scratch space.
  • 4 high memory nodes running a 36 TB Hadoop/Spark service.
  • 8 high memory nodes providing a private cloud service.
  • 2 data visualisation nodes with 22 usable cores, 384 GB of RAM and an Nvidia M60 GPU. These run both windows and Linux VMs.
  • 3 login nodes with 40 cores and 384 GB of memory.
  • In total more than 20,000 processor-cores providing 1,305 TFlops peak.
  • 2.2 PB of storage run on IBM Spectrum Scale parallel file system.
  • InfiniBand network for interprocess communication

IRIDIS 4 supercomputer


  • 750 compute nodes with dual 2.6 GHz Intel Sandybridge processors;
  • Each compute node has 16 CPUs per node with 64 GB of memory;
  • 4 high-memory nodes with two 32 cores and 256 GB of RAM;
  • 24 Intel Xeon Phi Accelerators;
  • 3 login nodes with 16 cores and 125 GB of memory;
  • In total 12320 processor-cores providing 250 TFlops peak;
  • 1.04 PB of raw storage with Parallel File System;
  • InfiniBand network for interprocess communication;
  • 12 x GPU nodes (2.6 GHz Intel Sandybridge 16-core nodes with ~62 GB usable memory and 2 K20 GPU cards each)

Individual workstations


Dual Intel QuadCore/OctaCore PC workstations with nVidia GPUs (16 to 128 Gb RAM, Windows 10 64, high-performance Intel SSDs)
Synology drives

Computational physics simulation software applications


These applications are available on individual PC workstations, IRIDIS 4 and IRIDIS 3 supercomputer (Linux and Windows HPC)

  • ABAQUS/Standard & ABAQUS/Explicit (www.simulia.com)
  • COMSOL Multiphysics (www.comsol.com)
  • ANSYS (www.ansys.com)
  • ANSYS Fluent (www.ansys.com)
  • STAR-CCM+, STAR-CD (www.cd-adapco.com)

Pre-processing, post-processing and scientific visualisation


  • ScanIP, ScanCAD (www.simpleware.com)
  • SolidWorks (www.solidworks.com)
  • Rhinoceros (www.rhino3d.com)
  • Tecplot 360 (www.tecplot.com)
  • AVIZO Standard, Wind, Earth, Fire, Green (www.vsg3d.com)
  • Paraview (www.paraview.org) | Our research is featured here

Programming and high-performance libraries


  • Intel Fortran, C++, Python
  • NAG

Symbolic and numerical mathematics


  • Mathematica (www.wolfram.com)
  • Global Optimization for Mathematica (www.loehleenterprises.com)
  • Matlab (www.mathworks.com) & numerous toolboxes
  • MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION

Equipment


  • Atomic Force Microscopy
  • Nanoindenter
  • RAMAN microscopy
  • ZETA APS for particle characterisation
  • Capillary electrophoresis for solution characterisation
  • EDIC (Episcopic differential interference conhust microscope)
  • TEM of 0.21nm resolution with EDS
  • µ-VIS Computer Tomography Centre
  • Optical microscopy & image analysis including 3D optical measurement of surface form
  • Scanning electron microscopy (including high resolution field emission) with wavelength dispersive and energy dispersive X-ray analysis and EBSP
  • Non-contact optical profilometry
  • Atomic force microscopy (AFM) for topography and mechanical characterisation of surfaces
  • Nanoindenter stylus calibration by metrological AFM
  • X-ray diffraction at ambient and elevated temperatures
  • Residual stress by RAMAN microscopy
  • Nanoindenter (depth sensing indentation) for modulus and hardness measurement
  • Micro indenter with depth sensing for hardness measurement
  • Scratch testing for evaluation of coating failure. System has multi-pass facilities for examination of build-up of damage and acoustic emission for detection of failure events
  • Bend/tensile testing for adhesion measurement and work of fracture at ambient and elevated temperature
  • Residual stress measurement by X-ray diffraction at ambient and elevated temperature
  • Rockwell indentation test for adhesion measurement
  • Scratch test and model abrasion test system with friction and acoustic emission measurement to detect failure of coatings. Steady or ramped loads from 2-200 N with single or repeat pass testing
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