Current Research Projects

Docking@Home: Dynamically adaptive protein-ligand docking system using volunteer computing
Docking@Home Screensaver: Docking@Home screensaver and graphical application for Volunteer Computing Projects studying molecular systems.
EmBOINC: An Emulator for BOINC Applications
jTopaz: A friendly, open-source GridFTP protocol extension to the Firefox browser for accessing grid repositories
RNAVLab: An open-source user-friendly virtual Laboratory for RNA secondary structure predictions
Pseudobase++: A searchable up-to-date database of the PseudoBase pseudoknots wrapped by a versatile, user-friendly interface providing scientists with a powerful engine to access, search, select, and sort data based on different fine-grained criteria
DACAPO GPUs - Development of Applications for Computer Architectures based on Parallel Organizations of GPUs: Use the computing power of parallel GPUs for scientific applications, e.g., Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations (web-page under construction)

Our Research Equipment

Our research equipment includes:

  • High-end cluster comprising of 6 dual-processor, quad-core compute nodes (48 cores) and 3 Tesla S1070 GPU systems, each connected to two compute nodes. A front-end node is connected to the computing nodes and is used for compilation and job submissions. A high-speed Infiniband interconnect for application and I/O traffic and a Gigabit Ethernet interconnect for management traffic connect the compute and front-end nodes.
  • Cluster of high-end workstations (Dual Quad Core Intel(R) Xeon 2.66GHz), each hosting two different types of GPUs. GPUs availables are:
    1. Nvidia Graphics Card GeForce 9800GX2,
    2. Nvidia Graphics Card GeForce GTX280, and
    3. Nvidia Graphics Card Quadro FX5600.
  • Docking@Home compute server (Quad Dual-Core AMD Opteron 8000 Series, 8GB, 3TB) generating, distributing, and collecting results from volunteers.
  • Docking@Home testing server (Dual AMD Opteron 2220, 4GB).
  • Farm of heterogeneous desktop PCs for studying critical simulation issues in protein-ligand docking when using heterogeneous environments and including 5 Intel P4 64-bit systems (with HT), 1 Intel Celeron 32-bit system, 1 Intel P4 32-bit system, 6 Intel PII 32-bit systems, 2 AMD Athlon 32-bit systems, 1 Apple G5 64-bit system, 1 Apple G4 32-bit system, 2 AMD Opteron 64-bit systems, 2 Intel Xeon 64-bit systems (of which one SMP).
  • Group server (Dual AMD Opteron 2220, 4GB).
  • Data server (Dual Quad-Core Intel XEON, 2.50GHz, 32GB, 10TB) holding research data.
  • Backup system of the data server done by a tape library with a capacity of 4.8 TB (uncompressed).
  • Different compilers for Windows and Linux operating systems (i.e., Intel FORTRAN/C++ compilers, Visual Studio .Net, and PGI FORTRAN/C++ compilers) and Intel MPI.

Software For Download

The D@H screensaver source is now availabe in Google Code. Download the code here.

Past Projects

SHiPPER: Spreading High-Performance computing Participation in undergraduate Education and Research (Old web-page at UTEP - page no longer maintained by M. Taufer)
MSM Consortium - Working Group 5: Working Group targeting topics in high-performance computing, computational issues, and algorithms
Predictor@home: Protein structure predictions using volunteer computing (TSRI site)