Computing Resources

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The computing resources available to our research are listed below (current tally: 98 processors). The total hard disk storage space in our group amounts to four terabytes.

Local (group use only):

• AMD Athlon MP (1.2GHz) server; Athlon (1.4GHz), Athlon XP (1800+, 2000+, 2600+, 3000+, 3200+), Intel Pentium 4 (3.0GHz) and Intel Xeon (2.4GHz) workstations, all running SuSE Linux.
  The server is equipped with 480GB of RAID storage.
• Elektra: Intel Xeon 2.0A Linux cluster (32 processors). Usage instructions
  Consists of 16 dual Xeon machines (2.0GHz, 512kB L2 cache) with 1GB PC800 RDRAM; the machines are connected via a private network. The master node is equipped with 108GB + 800GB of RAID storage, with an additional 600GB distributed over the slave nodes.
  Generously donated by Intel Corporation. Pictures.
  
• Minotaur: AMD Athlon MP Linux cluster (8 x 1900+ and 16 x 2800+).
  All machines are equipped with 1GB PC2100 DDR memory. This cluster is now merged with the Elektra cluster.
• Hera: Intel Xeon Linux cluster (30 processors: 16 x Xeon 3.06GHz; 4 x Xeon EM64T 3.0GHz; 10 x Xeon EM64T 3.4GHz).
  Rack containing 15 dual Xeon machines, partly donated by Intel Corporation. All nodes have 1GB memory and are connected via a private Gigabit network. The master node is equipped with 1TB of RAID storage.

External:

• Turing cluster: A 640-node Apple Xserve cluster (1280 G5 processors). Equipped with Myrinet.
• Computing clusters at NCSA: We utilize both Tungsten and Mercury, which are among the fastest supercomputers in the world.

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