Stanford NNIN Computing Facility (SNCF)

Introduction

Stanford NNIN Computing Facility (SNCF) is part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) , funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The mission of SNCF is to provide computing capability to researchers in academia and industry to model nanoscale processes.

NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

M. Stopa - Modeling the electronic structure of semiconductor devices

Director of National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation Project - Center for Nanoscale Systems - Harvard University

UPCOMING Event at Michigan University: 2011 NNIN/C Symposium

Advanced Modeling and Simulation of NEMS/MEMS and Nano/Micro-fluidic Devices

RECENT Event at CNF - Cornell University: 2010 Joint NNIN/C & NCN Fall Workshop

Building a Collaborative Framework for Nanoscale Simulations, November 15-16, 2010

NNIN Computing Workshop at SNCF

Bridging the gap between theory and experiment: which theoretical approaches are best suited to solve real problems in nanotechnology and biology?, February 23-26, 2010

Hardware description

SNCF hosts a PC cluster with 64 nodes, each with 2 quad core processors, for a total of 512 CPUs. 24 nodes are connected with high speed InfiniBand interconnects, and all of them are on a Gigabit network. The IB node has a memory of 2 GB/core, for a total memory of 16 GB/node, and the other nodes have 1 GB/core, for a total of 8 GB/node.

Software

A wide range of simulation tools are installed for atomistic simulations. More software packages aimed at bridging the time and length scales are continuously added.