Fulton Supercomputing Laboratory (FSL)IntroductionThank you for visiting the BYU Fulton Supercomputing Laboratory website. Supercomputers in the Fulton Supercomputing Laboratory are available to BYU and other CES institutions faculty and students whose research projects require more compute resources than their desktop can provide. Available equipment includes Linux clusters as well as large shared memory systems. Visit the resources page for system specific information. Supercomputing Success StoriesAs of today, BYU offers a great resource to all faculty and students, supercomputing. Research today would be crippled without the aide of computers. Despite the improvements in personal computers, some research is too complex for even the most powerful desktop computer to handle. Most people know that the supercomputers are used for 3d animation used in the BYU Animation Department's award winning short movies. Even though 3d rendering for movies requires more power than a dekstop computer can provied, the BYU Animation Department only reflects a small percent of computing capacity of all the supercomputers on BYU campus. In fact, it reflects probably less than 1%. What about that other 99%? Morad Alawneh's Research on the Supercomputers
Around 140 users, both faculty and students (including undergraduate students) use the supercomputers for their research. Morad Alawneh, one of those users, takes advantage of the supercomputing resources to accomplish several things. Morad's research will help model and study how the influenze A virus interacts with the substances around it. He also studies how changing the dielectric constants of a double layer affects their properties. Additionally, Morad's research studies the properties of colloidal systems. Currently, Morad's research on the subject has lead to 8 papers which have already been published or sent for pulication. |
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