Computers and Software
This page summarizes some of the computers and software programs that we use in our practice. We take great care to ensure that our systems are reliable, available and secure. To protect from lightening and power line disturbances all hardware is buffered from the mains by high quality Uniteruptable Power Supplies (UPS). To ensure integrity of data in the event of loss or theft we use Full-Disk-Encryption (FDE) on all machines. To ensure availability and protect from data loss, all user files backup up nightly to a central file server. Certain critical files are also mirrored in real-time to secure cloud servers. All backup media is encrypted and backup archives and disk snapshots are stored off site on a rotating schedule.
For extreme computing tasks we use GPU workstations equipped with nVidia Titan X Pascal or nVidia GeForce 1080 Ti Pascal GPUs. Our fastest GPU workstation can produce in excess of 44 TeraFLOPs single precision throughput on CUDA enabled applications such as Remcom's XFdtd simulator. Using GPUs we can now run and complete simulations in a matter of minutes or hours that would take day or weeks on traditional CPU machines.
In cases where the problem is too large for our in-house computers we utilize scalable cloud services such as rescale.com and Amazon EC2.
Computers
Quad GPU Workstation – Primary function Remcom X-FDTD Simulations
- 4.0 GHz AMD FX 8350 8 Core CPU
- 32 GB ECC RAM
- 1 TB Samsung SSD + 3x hot swap SATA storage bays
- 4x nVidia Titan X Pascal with total of 14336 CUDA cores and 48 GB GPU RAM
- Xubuntu OS
GPU Workstation - Primary function virtual machine host, backup server
- 4.0 GHz AMD FX 8350 8 Core CPU
- 32 GB ECC RAM
- 1 TB Samsung SSD + 3x hot swap SATA storage bays
- 2x nVidia GeForce 1080 Ti Pascal with 7168 CUDA cores and 22 GB GPU RAM
- Xubuntu OS
GPU Workstation - Primary function file server & general purpose workstation
- 4.0 GHz AMD FX 8350 8 Core CPU
- 32 GB ECC RAM
- 1 TB Samsung SSD and 3x hot swap SATA storage bays
- 1x GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Pascal with 3584 CUDA cores and 11 GB GPU RAM
- Xubuntu OS
Notebook GPU Computer - Primary function laboratory instrument control
- 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7-8750H 6 Core Hyperthreaded CPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 2x 1 TB Samsung SSD
- 1x GeForce GTX 1060 with 6 GB GPU RAM
- Xubuntu OS
Dell Notebook computer - Primary Function CNC Controller
- 4-core hyperthreaded Intel CPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 250 GB SSD
- Xubuntu OS
Acer Notebook computer - Primary Function Desktop & Imagaing Apps
- 4-core hyperthreaded Intel CPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 250 GB SSD
- Xubuntu OS
Dell Notebook computer - Primary function mobile apps
- 2-core hyperthreaded Intel CPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 1 TB SSD
- Xubuntu OS
Desktop computer - Primary function legacy applications
- 2.0 GHz AMD Quad Core CPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 1x 250 GB SSD
- DAT Tape Drive
- 1x Legacy GeForce GPU
- Xubuntu OS
Engineering Software
Below are listed some of the engineering software tools used in our practice.
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Last updated July 24, 2026.