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Site maintain:Yu-Heng Tseng
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The Peter A. McCuen Environmental Computing Center
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Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Stanford University
High performance computing to enable real-world predictions as a basis for design,
decision-making, and action to preserve and enhance our environment
The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory is an acknowledged world-leader in study of the bio-geo-physics of the environment, whether the focus is experiments at field and laboratory scale or numerical simulations of the physics, biology, or chemistry of pollution transport. Now, we have demonstrated that accurate prediction of the environmental pollution and transport in the water and the air requires three-dimensional and time-varying simulations that can only be accomplished on the largest of parallel computers with many processors. We have created a unique environmental simulation facility by construction of what is called a COTS (Commodity off the shelf) computer as the main machine of the McCuen Center. This machine [a Beowulf-class machine] is named BAYWULF. It is based on state-of-the-art commercial personal computer modules, i.e., Compaq Alpha CPUs. With these it was possible to build a high performance system at a very low cost. To our knowledge, this is one of the few such machines dedicated to environmental studies, giving us a unique opportunity.
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