Good News for ALPHA Users! More ALPHA Stations Added

By Hans Kuhn (hak@oregon.uoregon.edu)

Two new Digital AlphaStation 500/400s were added to the ALPHA cluster this summer, increasing the number of AlphaStations in the cluster to five.

The ALPHA cluster supports such compute-intensive research applications as

• rendering graphics
• calculating genetic relationships
• designing 3D molecular models
• solving complex mathematical equations
• running statistical analyses

Users should experience less contention for cpu resources now that there are more computers to share the load.

Please remember to be courteous of other users and run only one background job per machine so that others' jobs will finish in a timely fashion.

Who Can Use ALPHA?

Anyone with a DARKWING account can use the ALPHA cluster. To access it, simply log in to alpha.uoregon.edu with your DARKWING username and password.

Who to Contact

If you're interested in using one of the many commercial software packages available on ALPHA (see the software table on page 16), or if you want to write your own Fortan, C, or C++ code, contact Hans Kuhn (hak@oregon.uoregon.edu, 346-1714) for more information.