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Computing and geophysics resources (as of 09/2009)
Computing facility
- USC Geodynamics (Becker
group) computing facility
- 48 dual, quad-core cluster condo on HPCC, commissioned 2008.
- 100 dual node, 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron Linux cluster, commissioned 2006
- 36 dual node 3.2GHz Xeon Linux cluster, commissioned 2004.
- ~15 high-end Linux workstations, plus computing environment
(Matlab, Mathematica, PGI and Intel compilers, etc.)
- USC Geophysics computing facility
- 8 Dell Poweredge 1950 dual duo-core Intel Xeon w/ 2GB RAM
- 24 SUN servers w/ dual duo-core Intel Xeon w/ 2GB RAM
- 4 IBM Xseries dual duo-core Intel Xeon w/ 2GB RAM
- 4 Large shared memory, dual/quad duo-core AMD Opteron with 16-32GB
- 20 TB disk storage
- USC Earth sciences
teaching computer lab
- 20 high end PCs
- Matlab, GIS, EarthVision, and other software.
- various PCs, Macs, plotters, scanners, and printers
- campus wide
- USC High Performance Computing
Center with a Linux cluster with ~15,000 CPUs. This machines was
the 7th fastest in the United States in 2009, and among all
supercomputers in the world, it is ranked 76st.
Geophysics and geodesy instrument Pool
Profs. Miller
and Becker maintain
a geophysics and geodesy instrument pool for research and teaching
purposes, such as the
GEOL440
field
trip.
- 15 Nanometrics 120PA portable broadband seismometers and Taurus
dataloggers
- Two Trimble real time kinematic (RTK) differential GPS (R7)
receivers, plus survey gear
- Two Trimble 5700 campaign mode GPS units
- Six Ashtec GPS campaign mode units
- Geometrics 24 channel Geode seismics system, 24 geophones with 240 m spread
- Two Geometrics proton procession magnetometers
- Worden gravimeter
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