Computer facilities

• SGI UV2000 cluster, 8 compute blades having 128 cores with 3.3GHz per CPU, a memory of 1024 GB and four 1TB drives.
• SGI Altix 450 Itanium 2 cluster, 16 CPUs, 1.6 GHZ per CPU
•  SGI Altix 350 Itanium 2 cluster, 32 CPUs, 1.6 GHZ per CPU
•  1 local workstation Alpha 21264 CPU with 667 MHZ clock speed
•  2 local workstations Alpha 21264 CPU with 500 MHZ clock speed
•  Access to Cray T3E
•  Access to CPD Opteron cluster of 114 compute nodes (Opteron 2218/2.6 GHz, 8 GB memory)
•  Access to a cluster of 60 dual-CPU systems (Alpha 21264 CPU with 667 MHZ or faster clock speed)
•  Access to  Arkansas Red Diamond Supercomputing cluster  (256  Intel® Xeon™  EM64T 3.2 GHz processors)
•  Access to Star of Arkansas Supercomputing cluster (157 compute nodes, each with dual quad-core Xeon E5430 processors, 2x6MB cache, 2.66GHz, 1333FSB. There are a total of 1,256 cores, and each core has 2GB of memory)
•  Access to Razor of Arkansas Supercomputing cluster Phase I (126 compute nodes, each with 2 Xeon X5670 processors from Intel having a clock speed of 2.93GHz. There are a total of 1, 512 cores, and the system has a theoretical peak performance of 17.75 TFlop/s. Each node is configured with at least 24GB of memory.)
• Access to Razor of Arkansas Supercomputing cluster Phase II (112 compute nodes, each with two eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2670 “Sandy Bridge” 2.6 GHz processors, for a total of 1,792 cores and a peak performance of 37.7 TFlop/s. Other aspects are similar to Razor I.)
•  Access to ARL MSRC – Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center   (Linux Networx Advanced Technology Cluster (MJM))
•  Access to Arctic Region Supercomputing Center   (Sun Opteron Cluster (midnight))
•  Access to Engineer Research and Development Center Major Shared Resource Center   (Cray XT3 (sapphire))
•  Access to Maui High Performance Computing Center   (Jaws (Dell PowerEdge 1955))
•  Access to Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center   (IBM Power 5+ (Babbage))
•  Access to the Center for Computational Science at NRL    (Cray XD1,  Altix 3000)

Research Grants and Awards

Our research has been/is funded by the following sponsors (indicated in alphabetical order) :

1. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
2. Arkansas Research Alliance
3. Arkansas Science and Technology Authority
4. Army Research Office
5. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
6. Department of Defense (Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, VBFF)
7. Department of Energy
8. FLEET Strategic Research Seed Funding Program from Australia
9. National Science Foundation (CAREER, FRG, MRI, MRSEC, REU and regular awards)
10. NATO
11. Office of Naval Research (Regular, DEPSCOR, DURIP and Center of Piezoelectrics By Design (CPD) awards)
12. ORAU Ralph Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
13. Petroleum Research Fund
14. The Twenty-First Century Endowed Professor in Nanotechnology and Science Education, University of Arkansas