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NCSA TeraGrid IA-64 Linux Cluster

Production dates: Jan 1, 2004 (Phase 1) Aug 6, 2004 (Phase 2)

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COMPONENT DESCRIPTION
Architecture Linux Cluster
Access Nodes quad-processor
ECC SDRAM memory: 8 GB
4 Nodes (16 processors)
Compute Nodes dual-processor
ECC SDRAM memory (4GB or 12GB)
(Phase 1 nodes)
128 nodes (256 processors): 4 GB
128 nodes (256 processors): 12 GB
(Phase 2 nodes)
631 nodes (1262 processors): 4 GB
Processor Intel® Itanium® 2, 1.3 GHz
Integrated 3 MB L3 cache
Peak performance 5.2 Gflops
Intel® Itanium® 2, 1.5 GHz
Integrated 6 MB L3 cache
Peak performance 6 Gflops
Network Interconnect Myrinet 2000, Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel
Scratch Disk 1 TB NFS
39 TB GPFS NSD
90 TB GPFS SAN
Operating System Linux 2.4.21-SMP (SuSE Linux SLES8)
Compilers Intel: Fortran77/90/95 C C++
GNU: Fortran77 C C++
Batch System Torque Resource Manager with Moab Workload Manager
Status NCSA TeraGrid Cluster Monitor
Charging Algorithm
#SUs = 2 * #Nodes * Wall_Time * NormFactor

where

#SUs = the number of service units charged for the job
Wall_Time = Total wall clock hours used by the job
NormFactor = 1    for the 1.3 GHz processor machines
             1.15 for the 1.5 GHz processor machines