Shared Facilities

The CCMR Research Computing Facilities (CCMRCF) support the research goals of the Center in the areas of data acquisition, analysis, display of data, and computationally intensive modeling. The facilities also support information technologies that facilitate scientific collaboration such as e-mail and web servers. The facilities provide consulting, network administration and security services, as well as […]

The Materials Simulation Center (MSC) provides a facility for education and research on materials simulation for Penn State MRSEC researchers. It is designed to function as a hub to connect experimental and simulation activities through the organization of collaborative projects, short courses and workshops. For experimentalists, the MSC can provide the information needed to add […]

This facility is operated jointly with the JFI and provides infrastructure support for computation and networking, centralized services such as multi-platform file sharing, e-mail, web hosting and printing for the MRSEC, as well as Macintosh, Windows and UNIX (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and IRIX) operating system support for ~80 Unix/Linux- and ~140 Mac/Windows-based machines in MRSEC labs throughout the Research Institutes. Several Silicon Graphics and Sun workstations, Power Macs and Linux PCs, and a high-speed laser printer are maintained in a dedicated computer room for MRSEC members and their visitors.

Two 30 node computer clusters are used for computations. Available software for electronic structure calculations includes the Vienna Ab-Initio Simulation Package (VASP), the Layer Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker code, NW Chem, Atomistix Tool-kit, as well as locally written software. Magnetic simulations are performed with a locally written code (AlaMag), with a popular open source code (OOMMF), […]