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The Compute Cluster was installed on October 19, 2005 and became available to users the following day.  System warranty includes two years full parts and labor, three year extended manufacturers warranty and unlimited telephone and email technical support for the life of the cluster.
 
 
 
The software links below give you access to more detailed information about the system's software. Basic commands are provided on the Basic Commands page. Many documents are available on the cluster in the program's doc directory and the programs are under the /opt directory.

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System Hardware
 

Head Node (1)
Intel 7520 Chipset Dual Processor Motherboard, 800MHz FSB
Dual Core Intel EM64T 3.2GHz, 1MB cache Processors with heat sink and fan
8GB PC3200 DDR II 400 ECC REG
(2) 400GB SATA Hard Drives, 7200 RPM for OS, Mirrored Raid 1
(2) Gigabit 1000BaseT NIC
RedHat Enterprice LINUX 4 HPC version 32/64 BIT configured for Beowulf cluster including MPICH and/or PVM
 
Raid Array
Ultra SCSI 320/SATA Array, provides 4TB of accessible storage
Intel 80321 RISC CPU
512MB DDR
(16) Hot Swap SATA Hard Drive Trays
(16) 300GB SATA Hard Drives, 7200 RPM
Ultra SCSI 320 Controller
 
Compute Nodes (16)
Intel 7520 Chipset Dual Processor Motherboard, 800MHz FSB
Dual Core Intel EM64T 3.2GHz, 1MB cache Processors with heat sink and fan
8GB PC3200 DDR II 400 ECC REG
250GB UDMA Hard Drives, 7200 RPM
Gigabit 1000BaseT NIC
RedHat Enterprice LINUX 4 HPC version 32/64 BIT configured for Beowulf cluster including MPICH and/or PVM
 
Other Hardware
48 Port 10/100/1000 BaseT Gigabit Switch
(5) MGE Evolution VA2200 UPS Units
 

 
System Software
 
Operating System
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 High Performance Computing License for (17) Nodes (HPC faq)
 
Compilers
Intel Fortran F77, F90 Compiler, Academic Version
Intel C/C++ Compiler, Academic Version
GNU Scientific Compilers
 
Other System Software

LAPACK Libraries, BLAS Libraries

MPICH
OpenPBS Batch Scheduling System or Sun Grid Engine
   

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