Current system configuration
| Component | Model and Specification |
| Hardware | |
| Frontend |
AMD Athlon 1GHz CPU 512MB PC133 SDRAM ASUS A7V motherboard, BIOS version 1003 Matrox G200, Adaptec 29160N 1 x 3Com 3c905B for internet 1 x Packet Engines GNIC-II for net boot and NFS 1 x 20GB IBM 7200rpm IDE HDD for Linux 4 x 9GB IBM 7200rpm SCSI HDD for user data 1 x HP SureStore DAT40 Tape Driver 1 x Yamaha CRW6416S CDRW Driver |
| 1GHz compute nodes with two-way fast ethernet channel bonding (16 total) |
AMD Athlon 1GHz CPU 1GB PC133 SDRAM ASUS A7V motherboard, BIOS version 1003 Matrox G200 (32nodes), ATI RagePro(16nodes) 15GB IBM 7200rpm IDE HDD for local data(16nodes) 3 x Intel Pro/100+ (PILA8460B) |
| 1GHz compute nodes with two-way fast ethernet channel bonding
(32 total) |
AMD Athlon 1GHz CPU (FSB266) 1GB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM ASUS A7M266 motherboard Riva TNT2 40GB IBM 7200rpm IDE HDD for local data 3 x Intel Pro/100+ (PILA8460B) |
| Dual CPU compute nodes with gigabit ethernet
(8 total) |
2 x AMD Athlon MP1900+ CPU 1GB PC2100 Registered ECC DDR-SDRAM ASUS A7M266D motherboard 40GB Western Digital 7200rpm IDE HDD for local data Intel Pro/1000MT Gigabit server adapter |
| NFS connection |
2 x Cisco 3548XL 48-port switch connected by GBIC modules 1 x Cisco 1000BASE-SX module |
| Two-way fast ethernet Channel bonding |
3Com 4007 with 24Gbps fabric and total 216 100Mbps ports |
| Gigabit Ethernet |
3Com 3C16477 8-port GE switch |
| Software | |
| Operating System |
SuSE Linux 9.0 / kernel 2.4.21 |
| Program development tool |
Portland Groups Cluster Development Kit v5.1 |
| Math library |
ATLAS 3.2.1, LAPACK 3.0 and other libraries from www.netlib.org |
| Message Passing Library |
LAM MPI v7.0.4 |
| Scheduler |
Open PBS 2.3pl2 |
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Last updated:
September 18, 2004