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Dell Intel® 64 Linux Cluster [abe]
Peak performance: 89.47 TF (62.68 TF sustained)
Top 500 list debut: #8 (June 2007)

This Dell blade system has 1,200 PowerEdge 1955 dual socket, quad core compute blades, an InfiniBand interconnect and 100 TB of storage in a Lustre filesystem.

Abe is a shared resource that will be 50% allocated through the National Science Foundation allocation process, with the remaining time allocated at the discretion of the NCSA leadership to serve state of Illinois, University of Illinois strategic initiatives, and NCSA's Private Sector Program Partners.

SGI Altix [cobalt]
1,024 Intel Itanium 2 processors
Peak performance: 6.55 TF (6.1 TF sustained)
Top 500 list debut: #48 (June 2005)

The SGI Altix consists of two 512 Intel Itanium 2 processor shared-memory systems running the Linux operating system.

Dell Xeon Cluster [tungsten]
2,560 Intel IA-32 Xeon 3.2 GHz processors, 3 GB memory/node
Peak performance: 16.38 TF (9.819 TF sustained)
Top 500 list debut: #4 (November 2003)

This cluster is based on Dell PowerEdge 1750 servers, each with two Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz processors, running Red Hat Linux and Myricom's Myrinet cluster interconnect network.

IBM IA-64 Linux Cluster [mercury]
1,774 Intel Itanium 2 1.3/1.5 GHz processors, 4 GB and 12 GB memory/node
Peak performance: 10.23 TF (7.22 TF sustained)
Top 500 list debut: #15 (June 2004)

The IA-64 TeraGrid cluster consists of 887 IBM dual processor Itanium 2 nodes, running SuSE Linux and Myricom's Myrinet cluster interconnect network.

Dell Blade system [t3]
1,040 dual-core Intel 2.66 GHz processors an InfiniBand interconnect, 4.1 terabytes of total memory, and a 20 terabyte Lustre filesystem.
Peak performance: 22.1 TF
Top 500 list debut: #47 (June 2005)
This machine is allocated for the Private Sector Program only

Mass Storage System (UniTree)

UniTree is NCSA's hierarchical archival storage system. Access is via the FTP interface. NCSA's mass storage archive now holds more than two petabytes of data and has the capacity to archive five petabytes of data.