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High Performance Computing

The ANML manages the HPC COMSOL Multiphysics License for the university. The HPC COMSOL License includes the following:

    • Floating Network License (FNL) for one (1) concurrent user (qty. 3)
    • AC/DC Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics, (FNL qty. 1)
    • Acoustics Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics, (FNL qty. 1)
    • CAD Import Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • CFD Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Chemical Reaction Engineering Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Electrochemistry Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Heat Transfer Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Material Library for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • MEMS Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Microfluidics Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Porous Media Flow Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • RF Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Semiconductor Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Structural Mechanics Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)
    • Wave Optics Module for use with COMSOL Multiphysics (FNL qty. 1)

Boise State University has various high performance computing clusters for research activity, including the R2 cluster, which provides access to 616 CPU cores with 2.4 Ghz in parallel environment and 192 GBytes of memory. In addition, it has five GPU nodes, and each GPU has 3584 cores with Double-Precision Performance of up to 4.7 teraflops – for a total of 35840 cores.  It is available to researchers at Boise State University including students and graduate students affiliated with a research project. As a member of CAES, Boise State researchs also have access to the Falcon HPC resources located at the Collaborative Computing Center in Idaho Falls, ID. HPC installed software currently includes the following: AMBER-11, CHARMM, DOCKOMATIC, GROMACS, NAMD, LAMMPS, OPENBLAS, R—R, VASP, Gaussian and VMD.

The University of California Data Management Plan online tool is made available to Boise State researchers to assist in the development of Data Management Plans which are required for NSF and NIH grant applications. Support for use of this tool is provided to researchers by Boise State’s Office of Sponsored Programs, Library Data Management Resources through Boise State’s Albertsons Library staff, Office of Information Technology Research Computing, Office of Technology Transfer, and the Office of Research Compliance.

Free storage and servers for research are offered by the Office of Information Technology to researchers and faculty at Boise State University.