Computational Facilities at the Nano & Micro Mechanics Laboratory


The ISIS Computational Cluster at UCLA, under the direction of Professor Nasr Ghoniem of the
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and managed and operated by Dr. Robert
Amodeo, is a "Beowulf Cluster" consisting of 90 computers and a fileserver.  The cluster is
housed in the Micro and Nano Mechanics Laboratory in the Mathematical Sciences Building
at UCLA.
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The Dislocation Dynamics and Kinetic Monte Carlo codes which were developed at UCLA have been running successfully for over 9 months, in parallel mode on the ISIS cluster.

Overview of Isis Cluster

  • 180 Nodes
  • 90 Machines/180 Processors
  • 2GB Ram per Machine
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • SuSE Linux V8.2 OS
  • 5.4 Terabytes Disc Space
  •  PGI v4.0 Fortran Compilers, on , Sun Grid Engine batch processor, and Message Passing Interface
  • Currently 16 users running parallel & serial codes


Experimental Facilities at the Nano & Micro Mechanics Laboratory


[1] Thermal Plasma Spray Chambers

[2] Hollow Cathode Plasma Spray Guns

[3] 300 Kw Power Supplies

[4] Gas Tanks and Thermal Management

[5] Plasma Spray Control Units

[6] Lab View Computer Control of Multi Axis Robots

[7] Low Pressure Plasma Equipment

[8] Thermo-mechanical Foam Fatigue Testing Apparattus

[9] Plasma Ion Implantation (P-III) Unit

[10] Thin Film Preparation and Characterization Equipment