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Innovative Systems Lab Resources |
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NCSA's Innovative Systems Laboratory has a 2,000-square-foot machine room where research is conducted on a variety of experimental platforms, including:
- A 32-node cluster with dual-CPU dual-core Intel Xeon chips, 2 NVIDIA Quadro Plex servers, and 1 Nallatech H101 card per node. (Read more about this cluster and codes that were successfully accelerated.)
- An SRC MAPStation with MAPC and MAPE reconfigurable logic processors
- Two SGI Alitx dual-CPU systems with RASC Athena reconfigurable logic bricks
- A workstation with XtremeData XD1000 in-socket FPGA accelerator module
- A workstation with PCI-based Nallatech FPGA board
- Dual-blade STI Cell Broadband Engine IBM blade center
- Dual- and quad-core systems with Intel and AMD chips
- A seven-node PC Linux cluster for parallel place-and-route of circuit designs and to house compilers.
- Berkeley Emulation Engine 2 (BEE2) system
ISL also maintains and provides access to a number of software development tools including:
- SRC Carte® C and Fortran compilers for SRC-6 system
- Mitrionics Mirtion-C compiler and processor configurations for SGI RASC and Nallatech platforms
- ImpulseC compiler with platform cores for XtremeData XD1000 system
- Xilinx System Generator for Matlab/Simulink
- Xilinx ISE, and the Synplify synthesis tools
- Altera Quartus II and ModelSim synthesis tools
- Nallatech DimeC suite for Nallatech system
- IBM Cell compiler and simulator for IBM Cell platform
- NVIDIA CUDA compiler and simulator for NVIDIA G80 platform
- Intel C/C++/Fortran compilers.
ISL staff work closely with technology vendors to enable early access to new systems before they become available in production.
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