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NIA recently commissioned a new Beowulf-class high performance computing cluster to support staff research in the computationally demanding field of rotorcraft aeromechanic analysis. The cluster consists of a total of
18 Intel Xeon processors at 2.8 GHz, 18 GB of memory, and 1.4 TB of disk space. The cluster is operating in a native 64 bit environment. An initial benchmark test shows that this cluster is capable of running at better than 5 Gflops/s with excellent parallelization performance.
NIA's Rotorcraft Aeromechanics research group is utilizing the cluster to conduct a variaty of analyses including computational structural dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, computational acoustics, structure-fluid interaction, and rotor wake capturing. This research activity is supported by the Army Research Laboratory and NASA Langley Research Center. Group members include Drs. Beatrice Roget, Jinwei Shen, Yi Liu, and Phuriwat Anusonti-Inthra.
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