ESSCC is host to cutting-edge research facilities. These include:

 

The Earth Systems Simulator SGI Altix ICE 8200 EX   128 Intel Xeon quad-core processors (512 cores at 2.8 GHz each)   2 Tb memory 14.4 TBytes disc on a Nexis 9000 NAS   Peak speed 5.7 TFlops Acquired in April, 2008 Local User Guide
Software Escript/Finley High-level finite element simulation platform C libraries for high performance Parallelized with both OpenMP and MPI Object-oriented python interface for ease of use ModelFrame allows building complex models from component models
Software ESyS Particle Discrete particle simulation platform C libraries for high performance Parallelized with MPI Object-oriented python interface for ease of use Additional Software Matlab 2008a Abaqus 6.7 Underworld (geoscience)   SuperLU, MKL, Scotch, Pastix, UMFPACK, PETSc   VTK, Mesa, pyvisi, VisIt, Povray, Mayavi, ImageMagick, MPlayer Gmsh, Triangle Intel compilers SGI Data Migration Facility