Professor Alexander Figotin of the UCI Mathematics Department has recently acquired a new SGI Origin2000 computer to provide the main computing resource for his research. The machine has been named “krein.math.uci.edu” after one of the most eminent mathematicians of our time, Mark Grigorievich Krein, who made many fundamental contributions in functional analysis and its applications. The system currently has 24 MIPS R10000 CPUs (soon to be upgraded to SGI’s latest and most powerful CPU, the MIPS R12000), 6 GBytes of memory and 54 GBytes of disk space. The Origin2000 scalable shared memory architecture has been optimized for parallel programs using either shared memory or the message-passing model. Extensive software development tools, including the C/C++ and Fortran90 compilers, are available with special features for developing efficient parallel programs.
The acquisition of this powerful new computer was funded from a Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant, along with campus and School of Physical Sciences matching funds. It is being jointly supported by the school and NACS. Professor Figotin’s research involves the calculation of electromagnetic spectral properties of photonic crystals.
Contact Don Frederick (Frederik@UCI.EDU) or Professor Figotin (Figotin@UCI.EDU) for more information about this acquisition.