The computer modeling laboratory in the Laboratory Science Commons — 2335, contains eight Linux workstations designed for a variety of scientific computing needs. Each workstation has a large 24″ LCD display and is hard-wired to the campus ethernet backbone to enable the rapid downloading of large files such as molecular dynamics trajectories. The facility is also equipped with four high definition 80″ LCD displays for teaching and sharing research data in a collaborative environment. These displays are capable of rendering computational models in 3D.
If you are an undergraduate or graduate student that is interested in becoming involved in computational chemistry research, or you are engaged in a research project and desire to add a computational or molecular modeling approach, contact Dr. Cashman.
Computer Systems
Dell Optiplex — 13 Workstations (D01 to D13)
- Intel Core i7-9700 CPU running at 3.00 GHz
- 32 GB RAM
- 500 GB solid state drive (local)
- 2 TB hard drive (local)
- nVIDIA Graphics
- Opensuse Linux
HPC Resources
Tennessee Tech University also has a shared High Performance Computing (HPC) located in Clement Hall 226 that is available to students, faculty and staff for intensive computing needs. This HPC cluster is approximately 35 TFLOPS and contains 40 non-GPU compute nodes and four GPU compute nodes. Each compute node has 128 GB of RAM, 28 Intel Xeon cores, and 200 GB of local HD space in /local/tmp. Each compute node is connected by a 1 Gb ethernet connection and a 56 Gb InfiniBand network connection. The HPC storage server has 175 TB of disk space available for research files.
The HPC cluster is maintained by Tennessee Tech ITS. The HPC cluster administrator is Dr. Mike Renfro (931-372-3601).
- ITS HPC Dashboard
- Request an HPC Account (you need to login to express.tntech.edu to view)
Poster Printing Resources
The computer modeling lab in LSC-2335 is equipped with a HP DesignJet poster printer for large-format printing of research posters for students, faculty and staff in the Department of Chemistry. This poster printer is capable of printing posters of maximum 35″ high and any length that is needed. There is a Windows workstation in LSC-2335 that will be used for printing to the DesignJet printer. The Volpe Library has information available on designing and printing posters for students here.
This printer is for the exclusive use of faculty, staff and students in the Department of Chemistry and not a general use printer available to the university community at large. For general use printing, you can contact the Printing Services office, or contact Amy Hill in Southwest Hall.
Contact Dr. Cashman for questions.
Color Printing Resources
The computer modeling lab is also equipped with a high quality color laserjet printer for publication quality prints. This printer is available for the use of faculty, staff and students in the Department of Chemistry. This printer is compatible with Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and OpenSuse Linux for printing directly from the molecular modeling workstations in the laboratory.
Contact Dr. Cashman for questions on using this resource.