 London, January 2005 -- ClusterVision are pleased to announce the successful supply and full installation of a dual procurement for Compute and Storage clusters for a new university customer*. The 270 AMD OpteronTM processor compute cluster with Myrinet interconnect and the 40TB storage cluster were ordered from ClusterVision following a competitive tender procedure.
One of the computer managers at the University commented that they had been "impressed by the professionalism and thoroughness of the people from ClusterVision, both during the procurement and the delivery and installation of the systems. The final product looks very neat and tidy from the outside and is as tidy and functional internally." The compute cluster, now known as Hamilton after the famous Mathematician, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, will be deployed to a range of computationally intensive projects across diverse applications. The project is co-ordinated by Professor Jeremy Hutson, who will use it for his research on the collisions between molecules at temperatures close to absolute zero. In addition, Dr Mark Wilson will use Hamilton for the simulation of modern materials such as liquid crystals, Dr Richard Hobbs for modelling seismic wave propagation and Dr Charles Augarde for modelling the problems of tunnelling in soil. Dr Li He's research in modelling gas turbine engines, Professors Wojtek Zakrzewski and Richard Ward's work on computational mathematics and Dr Stewart Clark's calculations on the electronic structure of solids will also use the resources of Hamilton. The 40TB storage cluster is called the "Millennium Store" as it is storing the data from the Millennium Simulation, an international project led by Professor Carlos Frenk, FRS: "This is the largest simulation of the evolution of our universe ever performed." "Using an unprecedented 10 billion particles to represent 'cold dark matter', the simulation tracked the formation of cosmic structure in a typical region of a model Universe more than 2 billion light-years across, with a spatial resolution of 16 thousand light years. Approximately 20 million galaxies formed in the simulation." "The simulation was performed at the Max-Planck Rechenzentrum in Garching, Germany. It is one of the largest scientific computations ever attempted and the data analysis will keep a large team of physicists in Germany and the UK busy for many months." *The name of the university is not disclosed for security reasons. 
A computer simulation of the formation of a galaxy cluster. The left hand panel shows the distribution of matter and the right hand panel shows its temperature. (Provided by Craig Booth, ICC) About ClusterVision
ClusterVision are specialists in the design, implementation and support of large-scale computer clusters. Their clustering technology provides an alternative to traditional supercomputing by connecting multiple computers to form a unified computing system. ClusterVision's technical and sales team have designed and built some of the largest and most complex computational, storage and database clusters in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. With a background in applied scientific research and practical experience with a wide range of supercomputer technologies the team understands customers' requirements and provides tailor-made solutions. The company works together with the University of Amsterdam, which is also a shareholder in ClusterVision through its technology transfer company, PCC. ClusterVision's customers include government organisations and industries which benefit from chemical modelling, financial modelling, drug discovery, biotechnical research, oil and gas exploration and many more where there is a need for large-scale compute power, data processing and storage capacity. In the United Kingdom customers include Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, QinetiQ, Imperial College London and the Universities of Oxford, Liverpool and Leeds. In the Benelux ClusterVision has carried out projects for Delft Hydraulics, TNO, Cenaero, Numeca and the Universities of Groningen, and Amsterdam, amongst others. For more information
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