UTSA :: Department of Computer Science :: Computing Facilities :: R. Clint Whaley :: Research Machines

Labspace Overview:

• Location: SB 1.01.05 (shared space with Dr. Qing)
• Facilities: Machines and 5 cubicles
• Administered by: Dr. Whaley.
• Machine availability: By request to Dr. Whaley.
• Machine names: undisclosed.

Research Motivation:

The bulk of my research involves empirical tuning, either at the library level (as in ATLAS) or the compiler level (as in iFKO). This work involves having software adapt itself automatically to unexpected/unknown hardware, and thus having access to a diverse collection of machines is required. Therefore, most architectures in the lab are either new/odd/experimental systems that the department does not (yet) possess, or systems so old the department no longer supports them. I am unlikely to spend funds on systems that the department supports, as this is an unnecessary duplication of equipment dollars.

Equipment Details:

1. 200Mhz PentiumPRO : Personal property of PI.
2. 500Mhz Pentium III : Retired departmental machine.
3. 1.6Ghz Dual Opteron: Donated to PI by AMD for ATLAS research.
4. 533Mhz Dual PowerPC G4: Donated to PI by Apple for ATLAS research.
5. 2Ghz Dual Processor G5: UTSA startup machine.
6. 2.66Ghz 2-way Core2Duo (4 CPUs): Donated to PI by Apple for ATLAS research.
7. 2.66Ghz Dual-socket Intel Core2Duo (4 processors total): Donated to PI by Apple for ATLAS research.
8. 8 processor (2 4-way CMP) 1.7Ghz 3rd generation Opteron, with 8GB of memory: purchased with Maryland Procument funds.
9. 8 processor (2 4-way CMP) 2.1Ghz 3rd generation Opteron (w/o the hardware TLB bug) with 32GB of memory: UTSA startup machine.
10. 8 processor (2 4-way CMP) 2.5Ghz Core2-based Xeons: UTSA startup machine
11. 72 processor SiCortex SC072 MPI MIPS cluster: UTSA startup machine.

Notes:

These machines are used for research. If you are a UTSA student or faculty and would like access, send a request explaining the proposed research to me. If you are a student I don't know, you may want to have your advisor drop me a note that says the research is something other than "using someone else's machine to attempt cracking", etc.

In addition to these machines, the following machines are available, but housed in the PIs office/home or on student desks:

1. 2.2Ghz CMP AMD Athlon 64 X2: UTSA startup machine.
2. 2.8Ghz CMP Intel Pentium-D: UTSA startup machine.
3. 2Ghz Intel CoreDuo: Donated to PI by Apple for ATLAS research.
4. 2.66Ghz Intel Core i7 (4-way CMP): purchased with Maryland Procument funds.
5. 2.4Ghz Phenom X4 (2-way CMP): UTSA startup machine.

This page certified up-to-date on January 23, 2009 by R. Clint Whaley.