Boston University offers an impressive array of resources for high performance computing and visualization through the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization and the associated Computer Graphics Laboratory.
The Boston University Center for Computational Science (CCS) was founded in 1990 to coordinate and promote computationally based research, to foster computational science education, and to provide a forum for the multidisciplinary exchange of ideas among researchers, educators and students. CCS works in close collaboration with the Boston University Office of Information Technology, in particular with its Scientific Computing and Visualization Group (SCV).
The Center for Advanced Genomic Technology (CAGT) comprises the research core of Boston University’s bioinformatics program. The CAGT’s facility contains the Biowulf Linux Cluster, an IBM eServer xSeries with a 128-compute node distributed memory multi-processor system. Each compute node contains dual 1GHz PIII processors with 2GB RAM and 36.4GB hard disk drive. The nodes are interconnected with Gigabit Ethernet. It has one head node dedicated as management node, and two user nodes with 4GB RAM. Storage node of the cluster contains 2 73.4GB SCSI Hard disk. The operating system of the cluster is Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the scheduler is Portable Batch System (PBS) and maui to distribute the computational workload across the compute nodes.