Meeting
the Grand Challenges
SystemX is part of Virginia
Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and
Applied Science, a center where researchers are
solving a number of multidisciplinary “grand
challenge” problems such as computational fluid
dynamics, molecular modeling, nanoelectronics, quantum
chemistry, computational biology and large-scale network
emulation.
“Simulating the physics inside a molecule or the
interactions among atoms in a material science application
requires huge amounts of computation and data,”
says Dr. Cal Ribbens, Associate Professor of Computer
Science, and a member of TeraDisc’s
Technical Advisory
Board.
“And the results of the simulation demand that the
computations be very tightly coupled, because the answer
in one part of the simulation depends on the answer in
another part. So not only do you need very powerful
computers, you need them connected by a very fast
network.”
Clearly, clocking in a 12.25 teraflops, SystemX contains
both computers and networks that are up to the challenge.
Unique
Offering
Our
uniqueness should be more along these two significant
points:
• TeraDisc
is the ONLY
total
service provider of
high performance computing with applications in a secure
environment for large scale modeling and simulation using a
“Software as a Service” (SaaS) model, with fees
that scale with success and begin at a fraction of other
available solutions. We provide and support it, we hold
researchers' hands and provide development systems. Our
relationships with hardware and network vendors will keep
us on top.
• TeraDisc
is positioned to provide the
highest fidelity large scale simulation models in existence
– why? We support standard software, SBML, and import
others' models, and we have the compute power to
reverse engineer cell wide biochemical models.