Facilities & Resources

The Center for Computation & Technology at LSU houses five Access Grid facilities, two conference rooms, two teaching rooms each with 36 1.3GHz 15” PowerBook G4 machines, and a mobile node. CCT has a strong internal computing infrastructure including mail, Web, CVS, DB, Jabber and LDAP servers. The internal computing resources includes a large storage space of 5.5 Terabytes which can be used by all the users and CCT and affiliates. Laptop computers are generally provided for students, graduate assistants and post doctoral researchers at the Center. CCT has around 40 Desktop Computers and dual processor workstations including both Intel and Mac architectures that are used for scientific computing and visualization. In addition to this, the internal computing group recently aquired five dual processor workstations equipped with 10 Gigabit network cards, high end nVidia graphic cards, each with a 0.5 TB of storage capacity and 24.1 inch flat panel displays. These machines will be exclusively used for projects involving high speed data transfer and high end graphics & visualization. CCT has wired and wireless networks, with around 250 Gigabit Ethernet Drops and 16 Wireless Access points(a/b/g bands).

The Center for Computation and Technology at LSU will provide administrative support to the PI for managing this project, and for dissemination and event planning through the center’s Public Relations and Event Coordination programs. The Visitor Program at the Center for Computation and Technology will be available for hosting visits of contributing members to LSU.