Computing Facilities
1. High Performance Computers
Hardware
1) SGI ALTIX 3700 BX2:
- Processors: 160x1.5GHz Intel Itanium-2 CPUs with 4MB on-chip cache
- Memory: Two interactive nodes, each with 64 GB of memory,
- RAID disk storage capacity: 2TB TP9300 (2Gb Fiber Channel)
2) Altix350:
- Processors: 8x1.4GHz Intel Itanium CPUs with 4MB on-chip cache
- Memory: Two interactive nodes, each with 32 GB of memory,
- 500GB Ultra 350 storage
Software
- System software: SGI Advanced Linux Environment with SGI ProPack
- Also available: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 from Novell
- Networking: TCP/IP, NFS V2/V3, DHCP, SNMP management, SNMP MIB, NIS/ONC+
- Available server software: XFS 64-bit journaled filesystem, XVM Volume Manager, CXFS shared filesystem, Performance Co-Pilot system and network monitoring, SGI Cluster Manager for Linux, DMF, TMF
- Compilers: Intel Itanium Processor Family compilers: C/C++, Fortran; GNU compilers: C, Fortran 77
- Tools:
C Libraries: MPT, Array Services, CPU sets, SCSL, FFIO, and Intel Math Kernel Library
C Debuggers: Etnus TotalView, Intel idb, GNU gdb (with Fortran extensions)
C Performance analysis: Intel VTune, Intel Trace Analyzer, Intel Trace Collector, SGI Histx
- Interoperability: Samba environments for PC
- Partitioning: Support for system partitioning for systems up to 512P with maximum partition size 256P
2. User's Manual
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