Computing

Total exclusive computing power: 4.7 x 10^12 IPC (663 GHz x 7.1 average IPC), 173 GB RAM, 35 TB HD.


Our primary computations are performed by a "farm" of 320 processors, with two processors assigned to a single machine. These machines run the Linux operating system. This is exclusive to our group and the eventual goal is to expand this to over a thousand processors.

Our computing setup can be broken down as follows:

Type of machine Number of machines/CPUs CPU/machine RAM/machine HD/machine
farm 32/64 2 GHz 512 MB 60 GB
farm 32/64 3 GHz 512 MB 140 GB
farm 32/64 3.4 GHz 1024 MB 160 GB
farm 32/64 4.8 GHz 1024 MB 160 GB
farm 32/64 5.2 GHz 1024 MB 320 GB
desktops 18/38 2-5.6 GHz 1024-10240 MB 100-1280 GB
servers 2/4 2.8-3.3 GHz 2048 MB 760-1840 GB
laptops 4/4 0.7-2.4 GHz 512 MB 32 GB

Colour and B&W printers, scanners, and miscellaneous computing hardware are also readily available.

More information on the configuration of our clusters and use of Linux be gotten at Ram Samudrala's Linux Page.


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