C-MMACS: Infrastructure for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
India’s high-tech scientific research center takes on Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series to handle its latest HPC requirement
Challenges
• Deliver high performance. Demanding, data-intensive computing research environment needed high-performance data processing with intensive input/output (I/O) file storage and transfer requirements.
• Maximize the use of multi-core architecture. C-MMACS needed to use multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors for computational modeling and simulation.
The Council of Scientific Research (CSIR) Center for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS, pronounced as Seemax), located in Bangalore, India, is one of the country‘s foremost research centers in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences. Recognizing the growing significance of mathematical modeling and computer simulation in its research activities, C-MMACS has implemented a 192-processor high-performance computing (HPC) cluster using the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series.
MMACS is one of the largest weather and oceanographic HPC users in India and has a core scientific and technical staff with a dozen PhDs in various areas, notably physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences.
The Center has implemented third-party processor technologies for its computational needs and, since 2002, it has also included the Intel® Itanium® processor in its server infrastructure with 400 cores. The Center has initiated a number of programs that demand even more intensive computing power. These include, among others, modeling geographical constructs such as the crustal strain in the Indian crust, developing mathematical models for the early warning of cyclones, and molecular structure simulations to aid in developing new drugs.
Read the full C-MMACS Infrastructure for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation Case Study.
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C-MMACS: Infrastructure for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
India’s high-tech scientific research center takes on Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series to handle its latest HPC requirement
Challenges
• Deliver high performance. Demanding, data-intensive computing research environment needed high-performance data processing with intensive input/output (I/O) file storage and transfer requirements.
• Maximize the use of multi-core architecture. C-MMACS needed to use multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors for computational modeling and simulation.
The Council of Scientific Research (CSIR) Center for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS, pronounced as Seemax), located in Bangalore, India, is one of the country‘s foremost research centers in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences. Recognizing the growing significance of mathematical modeling and computer simulation in its research activities, C-MMACS has implemented a 192-processor high-performance computing (HPC) cluster using the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series.
MMACS is one of the largest weather and oceanographic HPC users in India and has a core scientific and technical staff with a dozen PhDs in various areas, notably physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences.
The Center has implemented third-party processor technologies for its computational needs and, since 2002, it has also included the Intel® Itanium® processor in its server infrastructure with 400 cores. The Center has initiated a number of programs that demand even more intensive computing power. These include, among others, modeling geographical constructs such as the crustal strain in the Indian crust, developing mathematical models for the early warning of cyclones, and molecular structure simulations to aid in developing new drugs.
Read the full C-MMACS Infrastructure for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation Case Study.
