Facilities
  • Laboratories
  • Nanochemistry labs for nanomaterial synthesis;
  • NPs characterization facility: UV-Vis, DLS, ICP, NTA, CE, HPLC, steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopies;
  • Microscopy facility: high-resolution TEM and SEM, AFM, Confocal microscopy (1- and 2-photon, FLIM), holographic microscopy;
  • Clean rooms and nanofabrication facilities;
  • Genomic lab: molecular biology tools, PCR, real-time qPCR, microarrays;
  • Proteomic lab: 2D-DIGE technology, Typhoon, Maldi-TOF-TOF, Spot picker, nanoHPLC, recombinant protein production.
    • Computational

      2 TeraFlops HPC Cluster with dual Intel-Nehalem quad-core cpu, 24GB ram; Infiniband interconnection network; cluster-file-system storage.

        IRIDIUM 

        Hostname/s Type Num. Nodes Num. Cores Connection Node-Type CPU CPU-Type Cache Clock Bus speed RAM Disks
        IRIDIUM HP XC4000 Cluster 16 128 Infiband 4x DDR HP DL 165G5 2 Opteron 2356 quad-core 2 2.3Ghz 1000MHz 32GB 4x164Gb SAS 15K

        PLATINUM

        Hostname/s Type CPU CPU-Type Cache Clock Bus speed RAM Disks
        PLATINUM PRIMERGY RX 600 S4 4 Xeon X7350 quad-core 8Mb per cpu 2.93Ghz 1066Mhz 32GB 8x146 SAS 10k

        IRON

        Hostname/s Type Num. Nodes Num. Cores Connection Node-Type CPU CPU-Type Cache Clock Bus speed RAM Disks
        IRON ClusterVision 20 160 Infiband 4x DDR SuperMicro Twin 2 Nehalem X5570 quad-core 8MB 2.93Ghz QPI 6.4 GT/s 24Gb FhGFS 24TB SATA

         CHROMIUM

        Hostname/s Type CPU CPU-Type Cache Clock Bus speed RAM Disks
        CHROMIUM IBM X3755 4 Opteron 8435 six-core 6Mb 2.6Ghz HT3 4.8GT/s 104Gb 5x450Gb SAS