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The RSF in Lebanon
Fluent’s remote simulation facility (RSF) has moved to the
Fluent headquarters in Lebanon, NH. The RSF, which
has been in operation for about a year, is designed for
running large parallel simulations and/or for the concurrent
execution of many simulations, through a web browser interface.
The 8-node, 16-processor machine in Lebanon is an Evolocity
cluster, provided by Linux Networx. The system uses 3GHz
Pentium 4 processors generating a total of 96 Gflops, and
each node has 4GB of RAM, for a total of 32 GB. The nodes
are connected with high-speed, Gigabit Ethernet for rapid
message passing during parallel processing. The facility uses
SSL 2.0, which provides state-of-the-art security and systems
infrastructure technology. Platform LSF (load sharing facility)
software from Platform Computing is used for job scheduling.
Each user account has access to 10 GB of storage space,
and redundant internet connections ensure continuous operation
in the rare event that one of the internet lines fails. Fluent
software products available on the RSF include FLUENT, FiDAP,
and Airpak. Per-hour costs for the RSF runs are based on volume,
and can fall well below US$10 per CPU-hr.
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