Specifications
The facility is based on 5 seperate clusters, based on the SRIF2 hardware, now arranged in 4 'towers' (A-D), and the newer hardware acquired via SRIF3 (tower E).
| Feature | Towers A-D | Tower E |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 2 x AMD Opteron 2.2 GHz single core. 2 processing cores per node. | 2 x Intel Xeon (Harpertown) 3.0 GHz quad core. 8 processing cores per node. |
| Memory (RAM) | 2 GB per node (1GB per core). Tower B has some 4GB and 8GB nodes. |
16 GB or 32 GB per node (2 GB or 4 GB per core). |
| Local disk scratch space | 28 GB per node (14 GB per core). | 190 GB per node (23.7 GB per core). |
| Interconnect | 1 Gb ethernet. | 1 Gb ethernet and 10 Gb Infiniband. |
Login nodes
Networked storage
Users 'home' storage of 12TB provided by Sun X4500 server, with files backed up to second server for resilience. Work storage of over 90 TB is provided by Panasas parallel storage system.