Daresbury VMT PowerWall
Production server
Fakespace Beacon DMSX+ system which we have had since 1/10/2006. This was previously driven by an SGI Prism with 4x FireGL X3 graphics pipes. Now driven from a high-end 16-core PC server running RHEL5.3 with a dual-port nVidia Quadro FX 5600 GPU. The system was re-commissioned by MechDyne in September 2009.
Currently installed software includes:
NW-GRID Sun Cluster
The NW-GRID systems can be used as back end parallel data processing and rendering engines. See
http://www.nw-grid.ac.uk/Daresbury
.
Software currently installed includes:
Development server
System: Viglen Genie Xeon Pro machine as development system.
Currently installed software includes:
- VTK - from Gentoo distro
- OpenMotif - from Gentoo distro
- OpenDX - formerly IBM Data Explorer, from Gentoo distro
- Gimp - from Gentoo distro
- xv - from Gentoo distro
- ParaView - from Gentoo distro. Did not install paraview GUI because of incorrect QT4 settings, so installed from binary.
- R - from Gentoo distro to follow
- GraphViz
- from Gentoo distro. Includes dot. Useful for visualising very large network diagrams.
- VisIt 2.0 - from LLNL sources, being tested
- Blender3D
2.49a - open source 3D video movie software
- SciRun - to be installed soon - from University of Utah
- VMD
- to be installed soon - from University of Illinois
Other Packages being considered: