Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering Cornell National Supercomputer Facility _A_d_d_r_e_s_s: Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering 265 Olin Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-5201 _E-_m_a_i_l: psfy@cornellf.tn.cornell.edu _P_h_o_n_e: (607) 255-8686 _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n The Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering at Cornell University (Theory Center), in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, IBM Cor- poration, and the State of New York, provides supercomputing resources for researchers nationwide. The Center's primary supercomputing resource, the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility (CNSF), consists of two IBM 3090-600Es with 12 processors and attached minisupercomput- ers, giving a peak throughput of over 1.5 gigaflops. All systems fully support ANSI-standard Fortran-77. Each IBM 3090-600E has six vector facilities and gives a peak perfor- mance of 696 megaflops. Each has 256 megabytes of memory and 1 gigabyte of expanded storage. Some 75 gigabytes of disk storage in total are available for users. Each appli- cation may use up to 1 gigabyte of virtual memory. There is software support for parallelization and vectorization, including a vectorizing compiler and vector libraries. VM/XA SP (CMS) is the operating system; both interactive and batch modes are provided and parallel work can be done in either mode. The full set of operating system functions and utilities is available for interactive and batch jobs. Communications are supported for a variety of dial-up terminals and TCP/IP networks. FORTRAN is the primary language, and is supported _________________________ The information in this section is provided in accor- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front of this guide. June 30, 1989 NNSC Section 1.2, Page 1 in scalar, vector and parallel mode, with interactive debug and execution analysis. Scientific subroutine libraries are available, including some vectorized versions. HELP facili- ties and a Cornell set of TUTOR examples assist the user. There is extensive host support for the attached minisuper- computers. Graphics software supports both local hardware and remote facilities. A number of well known application packages are available, as well as a public disk of user contributed packages. A list of software is available upon request. There are several graphics facilities located on the Cornell campus, connected to the CNSF via a high-speed channel run- ning over a fiber optic link. Each facility contains a wide range of graphics hardware, including sophisticated IBM graphics workstations, various UNIX (a trademark of AT&T Bell Labs) workstations, printers, and plotters. The cen- tral facility has equipment to allow researchers to produce computer-generated animation, either on 16mm film or on video tape. _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s The CNSF can be reached via NYSERNet, NSFNet, and associated regionals such as SURANet, Arpanet, Milnet (supporting remote login, file transfer, and mail), either directly or through a Gould frontend running Berkeley UNIX. The CNSF provides file transfer and batch job submission through Bit- net. Terminal traffic may access CNSF via direct dial-ups. _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r All proposals for time on the CNSF are subject to peer review through the Theory Center's National Allocations Com- mittee; researchers must submit an application for supercom- puter time directly to: Pat Colasurdo, User Accounts Coordi- nator at the address and phone number above. June 30, 1989 NNSC Section 1.2, Page 2