Facilities
The laboratory is located in the Department of Biochemical Sciences of the Sapienza University.
Available computer equipment
• 1 Cluster HP 10 Blade (BL 465c) , 20 CPU (AMD O2220 2.8 GHz Dual Core), 80 GB RAM, 20 Disks SAS 72 GB 15Krpm, 4 Gbit Ethernet. - 4 Switch Gigabit Virtual Connect (located in the computer room of CASPUR, the Interuniversity Consortium for the application of super calculus for University and Research, located within 500 meters from the laboratory.)
• 1 Olidata AMD dual processor server (4GB RAM)
• 1 IBM Z Pro, dual Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz server, 1 GB RAM, 4x Disks 80 GB
• 3 Silicon Graphics Octane machines
• Several Desktops (PC and MACs)
Remote access to high performance computers.
The laboratory has applied and been granted access until the end of 2008 to:
• 36 machines with 2 Itanium CPUs, 28 machines with 2 Xeon CPUs, 64 machines with 2 DualCore2 Duo CPUs through the Vital-IT European project
• the equivalent of 200,000 CPU-core-h (Power5, 1.9 GHz) through the Distributed European Infrastructure Supercomputing Applications (DEISA)
Software
We have local installation of the most widely used modelling, statistical and simulation software packages and biological databases.
