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Laboratory for Advanced Computations in the Mathematical Sciences
Modeling the icefields of Greenland and Antarctica, studying superconducting materials and developing fuels for hypersonic travel. These are some of the research projects undertaken by the Laboratory for Advanced Computations in Mathematical Sciences (LACMS) at Bristol which provides computing resources to the department of mathematics and any University researcher who may need to run heavy-duty computational experiments.
The LACMS maintains its own website where you can find a full list of projects and contacts.
Many modern research projects involve subjects such as quantum systems, planetary movements or nuclear reactions which are too small, too big or too dangerous to conduct live experiments. Consequently researchers rely increasingly on resources like the LACMS for mathematically modeling these systems.
The main computing resource at LACMS is a 160-processor Beowulf cluster provided by a network of 80 machines, each with two 1GHz Intel Pentium III processors, and sharing nearly 2000Gb of storage.
The size and capability of the LACMS has been instrumental in establishing Bristol as a premier research establishment. The University is now investing a further £2m to install a 2024-CPU IBM cluster supercomputer which will make Bristol the UK leader in computational science research.