Summary of HIR Equipment (2012-2013) - High Impact Research

HIR-MOHE EQUIPMENT 2012 - 2013 (FACULTY OF SCIENCE)No PI's Name Project Title EquipmentEstimated budgetYear 2&3(2012-2013)2012(RM)Approved Budget(After VM Lab)2013(RM)Total(RM)Quantity/UnitOriginCountry ofDetails Justification of purchaseAdditional information(space/utilities eg electric, software etc)Potential users/research groups9 Prof Dr. Rauzah Hashim,- Assoc Prof Dr. ThorstenHeidelberg,- Rusnah Syahilah DualiHussen ,- Nasrul Zamani Mohd Rodzi ,- A. Sugimura (Osaka SangyoUni),- H. Naito (Osaka PerfectureUniversity),- Osama Abou Zeid (SultanQaboos University)10 Prof. Dr Edward R.T. Tiekink,Prof. Dr Ng Seik Weng, Assoc.Prof. Lo, KM, Dr N. Halim, DrTan Kong WaiHIR 11 - Understanding 1 Photon correlation250,000.00 250,000.00 - 250,000.00 1 UK determination of particle size and size distribution (range ~ 1 The determination of particles sizes and size distribution is an essential stand alone benchtop system with standard 2-phase electricGuerbet glycosides selfassemblystructures andparticle sized between 5 nm and 10 mmcritical for potential applications. The zeta-potential enables a prediction on space (~80 cm bench, < 30 kg) for placement in M008bspectroscopynm to 5 mm diameter); Zeta-potential measurements for feature in the formulation studies for vesicles, as these parameters are supply (80 W/220V) and no special room requirements; labdynamics for functionalthe stability for dispersions and emulsions and, therefore, is an important available; no special maintenance of equipment and nonano-biotechnologyfeature for formulation designs as well. The optimization of formulations updating of software or databases required; repairs requirerequires accessibility of the analytical instrument. Although an instrument authorized engineerwith required feaures is available in UM, the machine is heavily utilized andaccess is limited to one paticular day in the week.These restrictions preventan effective fromulation study and, thus, affect the progress of the research.250,000.00 250,000.00- 250,000.00HIR 12 - NanoCav 1 Modular spectophotometer 194,685.00 194,685.00 - 194,685.00 1 USA/Japan This attachment is designed to enable the measurement of There is no equipment in UM to perform this function. This equipment will At present UM does not have this capability. However, oncevariable temperature solid-state responses of particular interest allow efficient screening of synthetic compounds for their solid-state the instrument has been installed and is operational, it isto this gold but, also to the metal-organic framework project photoluminescence characteristics that can be correlated with their crystal hoped that chemists working in all chemistry disciplines will(HIR/SC/03). At present we obtain such data from collaborators structures. Our previous experience has shown that the addition of these avail themselves of this spectroscopic opportuntity. Ideally,from around the world but for high-throughput in-house data to our research projects enables publication in high-impact Journals this modular attachment can be added on to a pre-existinganalysis, effective and vital spectroscpic data may be collected such as CrystEngComm and Crystal Growth & Design. Other targetted highimpactJournals for our research output in Dalton Transactions, Chemistry of should be no special space requirements for the newspectrophotometer and removed, as necessary. Thus, therein a timely fashion.Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry and Chemical Communications. equipment.In summary, a key component of both Tiekink's HIR3 and HIR12 projects isthe measurement of variable temperature solid-state luminescence data toenable higher-quality publications.194,685.00 194,685.00 -194,685.0011 Prof Dr. Kurunathan HIR 13 - Network Analysis 1 SGI Altix UV100-XE: HighRatnaveluof Social, TechnologicalPerformance Computerand Biological Networks(HPC) [Integrated Compute,Storage & GPGPUAccelerated System: 4 x 6-core Intel Xeon 2.66GHzprocessor, 32 x 2GB DDR3system memory, 4 x 3TB7200RPM SATA storage, 1 xNVIDIA M2090 Tesla GPU,1 x NVIDIA QUADRO 6000GPU]249,991.00 249,991.00 - 249,991.00 1 USA 1. Development of massively parallelized graph layoutalgorithms by utilizing a GPGPU (General Purpose GraphicsProcessing Unit) implementation of the Barnes-Hut n-bodysimulation algorithm.2. Development of GPGPU Monte Carlo algorithms for largenetwork dynamics (time evolution) simulations.Fast (large) network layout algorithms and Monte Carlo network evolution Requires constant air-conditioned environment and UPSsimulations scheduled for development under this project require hardware (Uninterrupted Power Supply) system. This system takes up a(GPGPU) acceleration using the CUDA (Compute Unified Devicesmall footprint (uses 3U chasis: D650 X W483 X 133H mm).Architecture) and OpenCL (Open Compute Language) framework. CUDA andOpenCL enable direct interface to the 512 compute cores on the NVIDIATesla M2090 GPU to deliver a peak performance of up to 600 gigaflops (600billion floating point operations per second) in double-precision. In contrast,a quad-core Xeon X5365 processor delivers only 38 billion flops (under theLINPACK benchmark). An equivalent GPU-accelerated SMP (SymmetricMultiprocessing) HPC is not available in UM.2 Other peripherals 40,000.00 25,000.00 15,000.00 40,000.00 1 Provisioned for procurement of additional 2 units of NVIDIATesla M2090 cards.289,991.00 274,991.00 15,000.00289,991.0012,121,526.00 10,334,676.00 1,605,800.00 11,940,476.00 Total 39To develop scalable multi-GPU (GPU-cluster) network layout/Monte Carlocodes.No additional hardware requirement - the Altix UV 100-XEcan host another two (2) GPUs. Codes developed for single-GPU runs will be modified to work on multiple GPUs.- updated on 2nd March 2012 -