Dear all,
See the e-mail from Hanspeter Pfister below. It actually is a great
opportunity for the group to have access to some of these machines (eg.
Larrabee's for our experiments in speeding up quantum chemistry) or as
powerful workstations to do more work in development (some of us had
discussions about this). So consider this christmas time and you are asking
Santa Claus for computers. I would like from anybody interested in using
some of the resources mentioned below, a concise clear paragraph or two
describing what would be the use for it. Citing some of our papers that have
to do with this (In Word document format). For example, the obvious example
is GPU research and how having a Larrabee box would be great for it, but
also how some of these machines could help e.g. the NSF Solar project or
QUBE or DTRA or Quantum Biology, etc. Rather than me writing the entire
narrative, I would like to get requests from interested parties, sort them
and compose a larger document to send to Hanspeter early next week.
Therefore, I need your "christmas" requests by Monday night.
See below.
Alan
Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate Professor
Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-384-8188 |
http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu |
http://about.me/aspuru
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hanspeter Pfister <pfister(a)seas.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:36 PM
Subject: [Cdi-amigos] Fwd: Equipment opportunities for ISTC-VC research -
Your input required
To: vcg <vcg(a)seas.harvard.edu>du>, cdi-amigos <cdi-amigos(a)seas.harvard.edu>
As you probably know, I am part of the new Intel Science and Technology
Center in Visual Computing (ISTC-VC). Intel is offering various equipment if
we can make a case for it.
Please send me a brief note if any of this equipment would be useful to you
(or your students) and how it would be used. I'll collect the requests, try
to massage them into a coherent form, and will pass them along.
- HP
Begin forwarded message:
*From: *"Leeming, Greg P" <greg.p.leeming(a)intel.com>
*Date: *March 24, 2011 12:17:54 PM EDT
*To: *"istc-vc-technical-contributors(a)googlegroups.com" <
istc-vc-technical-contributors(a)googlegroups.com>
*Subject: **Equipment opportunities for ISTC-VC research - Your input
required*
Good Morning, we continue to work to get you access to Intel equipment.
Here is the latest status:
o *Sandy Bridge workstations*: An Intel division has communicated their
willingness to fund the purchase of Sandy Bridge workstations for the
Center. If you have interest, please forward a request for what you want
to Frank franklin.c.crow(a)intel.com and provide a short explanation for how
they will be used. Think big - don’t hesitate to ask for what will help
your research. A workstation per grad student (or more than this) is not
unreasonable.
o *S/W licenses: *Intel has agreed to provide 25 seat licenses for Intel
S/W development tool suites at no cost to ISTC-VC PIs. A URL at which you
can request what you need will be made available in the short term -
(likely within a few weeks - site is under development)
o *Solid State Drives:* An offer has been made to supply solid state
drives to the Center. If you have interest, please go to
http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/index.htm and identify what you need
and send your list to Frank. Please also provide a short explanation for
how you will use them. The offer was to supply thousands of drives so
think big.
o *Larrabee workstations (now called Knights Ferry):* 15 high end
platforms have been purchased for our Center - they are scheduled for
delivery in Q4 of this year.
o *Requests for Lablet equipment:* Greg attended a meeting on the
disposition of lablet equipment yesterday - final decisions will be made
by the end of April so keep tuned
o *Access to cluster -* Discussions continue - not sure what the
outcome will be yet. Goal is to provide access to a large cluster with
significant Graphics support per core
Please take maximum advantage of these opportunities. If there is Intel
technology not on this list that you have interest in, please communicate
to Frank.
Thanks
Greg, Pat, Frank and Jim
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