Thank you very much for the fire dynamics idea. I will have a look at it.
I did try to contact many e-science projects including some researchers
at Oxford. But I got no reply. Then I went to get some contacts from a
tutor who worked at a e-science project himself. He told me people,
especially scientists are "very jealous" of their data. And not replying
is a kind way of saying "no". And there's the problem of "who's this guy
wanting my data", "what will he do with it?".
I have given up the e-science idea. Now looking for other real world
applications.
Thanks,
Mitchell
John Hearns wrote:
Mitchell Wisidagamage wrote:
Hi all,
As part of my dissertation, I'm looking for "raw data" which will be
used for massive parallel processing using Beuwulf cluster (with the
use of PVM or MPI). I tried looking for e-science raw data (and the
computations required on it) such as bioinformatics, fluid dynamics,
etc. but without any luck.
Anyone has any idea of getting some raw data so I can give compute
intensive "work" to the nodes?
Mitchell,
how about running the NIST Fire Dynamics simulation?
http://www.fire.nist.gov/fds/
It simulates the spread of smoke and fire in buildings.
There are some sample input models for download.
The Smokeview program visualizes the output, which will be a nice
demonstration for your tutor.
But why not just go across to the Oxford E-science centre?
I know for sure they have one cluster there for handling large datasets!
Ask them for help in getting a suitable dataset for your project.
Drop me an email if I can give you any advice, you're in my neck of the
woods.
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