High Performance Systems
| Big Red | Libra | Quarry | RDC | RDC WWW | Steel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Function | Research | Research | General purpose |
Research Database Servers | WWW Server for RDC | General purpose |
| Architecture | IBM JS21 BladeCenter Cluster PPC970MP |
IBM JS20 Blades IBM p690 PPC970 & Power4 |
IBM HS21 BladeCenter Cluster EMT64 |
Sun V1280 SPARC 3+ |
Sun V880 SPARC 3+ |
Sun UE2e UltraSPARC 2e |
| Peak GFLOPs | 30.72 TeraFlops | 905 | 7.168 TeraFlops | 43 | 8 | 9 |
| Operating System |
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 | AIX 5.3 | RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 | Solaris 2.9 | Solaris 2.9 | Solaris 2.8 |
| Clock Speed |
2.5GHz | 2200 MHz and 1300 MHz | 2.0 GHz | 900 MHz | 1050 MHz | 500 MHz |
| CPUs | 1536 | 116 | 224 | 24 | 4 | 9 |
| Memory Type | distributed and shared | distributed and shared | distributed and shared | SMP | SMP | uniprocessor |
| Total Memory | 6144 GB | 360 GB | 896 GB | 192 GB | 8 GB | 9 GB |
| Memory per Node |
8 GB | 4GB and 192GB | 8 GB | 96 GB | 8 GB | 1 GB |
| Network | Myrinet | GigE | GigE | Ethernet, GigE, SunFire Interconnect |
Ethernet, GigE | Ethernet |
| Scratch Disk | /scratch, /N/gpfs | /scr, /shscr1, /shscr2 | /N/gpfs/USERNAME | /bigscr, /N/hpcscr | /bigscr, /N/hpcscr | /scr/USERNAME |
| Job Type | serial, parallel, interactive |
serial, interactive |
serial, parallel, interactive |
serial, interactive |
interactive | interactive |
| Batch System |
LoadLeveler Moab |
LoadLeveler Moab |
PBS (or TORQUE) |
OpenPBS Maui |
none | none |
| Batch Jobs per User |
fairshare with 16 maximum | fairshare with 4 maximum | fairshare with 16 maximum | fifo | N/A | N/A |
| Users |
Faculty, Students, Staff |
Faculty, Students, Staff |
Faculty, Students, Staff |
Faculty, Students, Staff |
Faculty, Students, Staff |
Unrestricted |
| Accounts |
1500 | 550 | TBA | 30 | 25 | 31,100 |
| Acquire Date | 4/06 | 7/05 | 07/07 | 10/03 | 10/03 | 3/03 |
