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.
We can be inventive also when the chips are down:
