HPC: Specifications

Hardware

• SGI Altix 3700 Supercluster
• 28 1.3GHz Itanium 2 Processors (ia64)
• 68GB system memory
• 10TB disk storage space

Software

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 (ia64)
• Intel optimising C/C++ and Fortran compilers
• Java JDK 1.4.2
• Fluent 6.1
• Sun Grid Engine for job control

Note

The Altix system runs on Itanium processors. Software compiled for i386-compatible processors may not run correctly on this system. Wherever possible software should be recompiled into Itanium-native binaries.

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