Facilities & Equipment
- Engineering design stations
- Electronics design stations
- Computer lab with a high-speed cluster
- NERSC accounts
- Offices with high-speed Web access
We currently have offices with high-speed internet and phone connection and an adjacent computer lab. A 16 processor cluster on site is used to run NIMROD and Corsica codes. The cluster consists of two Dell PowerEdge 6950 servers (4x 2.8GHz Dual Core, 32GB, 2 x 73GB) and a control node for launching jobs and running other analysis when all processors are in use. Usual schedulers (Slurm) allow for jobs to be submitted to the cluster in sequence. Cluster is expandable, though so far we have not encountered resource limitations (the pacing of our run cycle is not processor number, but post-processing and analysis).
In addition to the on site cluster WSI has access to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). There we currently have an account and hours allocated for fusion energy science research. The NIMROD code runs effectively on Carver and Franklin, and demonstrates good parallel scaling if needed in addition to our own cluster.
Much of the analytic work is performed on personal computers (Mathematica/Sage and Matlab/Octave are the main tools). NIMROD can also be analyzed using VISIT, a visualization tool. WSI makes frequent use of analytic programs such as SPICE, and ViaCAD Pro.