NPS HPC provides and supports a wide range of computing resources for the research community. All machines are available for allocated use unless specified. Detailed system information on each machine is described below.
 | - Sun Microsystems 6048 "blade" system
- 4 racks, each with 4 shelves, each shelf holds 12 server blades
- The blades carry multiple sockets with AMD, Intel, or Sparc CPU's.
- 144 Blades containing 1152 cores.
- Supports Sun OS, Red Hat Enterprise, Linux, CentOS, Rocks, and Fedora Core
- Theoretical peak performance of 10.7 trillion operations per second.
- 112 Terabytes of disk storage.
- Scalable
- Purpose: NPS shared R&D and academic resource cluster
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 | - 4 Node, 32 Core Apple Xserve
- 4 Dual Quad core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon Processors
- 12 MB L2 Cache
- 2 16X PCIe ports per blade
- 8 GB of memory per blade
- Access to 2.8 Terabytes of RAID 5 Storage
- Peak 3GB/sec data throughput
- Mac OS X, with access to Internet 2 and CENIC network
- Purpose: Research and Development Cluster
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 | - 4 nodes (8 processors per node) = 32 PE*
- 4Dual core 1.8 GHz AMD 865 Opteron / node
- 20 GB of PC3200 DDR RAM / node
- 1.15 TB accessible RAID 5 storage
- Gigabit 10/100/1000 BaseT NIC
- 11-node capacity (7 more would give 88 PE)
- Fedora Linux (core 3 kernel 2.6.12-1)
- Built by PSSC Labs
- Purpose: Temperature / Salinity distribution in the ocean (important for vessel buoyancy)
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 | - 8 nodes (4 processors per node) = 32 PE*
- 2 dual core 1.0 GHZ AMD 270 Opteron / node
- 8 GB of RAM/node
- CentOS Linux 4.2
- Sun Sunfire V20z servers
- Purpose: Modeling of Virtual Environments and Simulation
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 | - Dual "MAP" Board (reconfigurable processor)
- 2 Fedora Linux dual-processors
- Translates from high-level (C) into logic circuits
- "Field Programmable Gate Array" (FPGA)
- reconfigurable CPU
- millions of re-programmable logic gates
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 | - Belongs to: Professor R. Brown and J. Sinibaldi
- 11 nodes (2 processors per node) = 22 PE*
- 2 single core 2.6 GHz AMD 252 Opteron / node
- 4 GB of RAM / node
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.3
- 2.0 TB storage
- MOAB scheduling software suite loaded
- Built by Western Scientific
- Purpose: Detonation, combustion, explosions, weapons
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 | - 32 nodes (2 processors per node)
- 2 dual core 2.0 GHz AMD Opteron 270 / node
- 16 GB of RAM in Headnode
- 4 GB of RAM / node
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server HPC Product
- 80 GB SATA / node
- Built by PSSC Labs
- Gigabit 10/100/1000 BaseT NIC
- Purpose: Mechanical Engineering overall academic use
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 | - 32 Processor Elements
- 128 GB RAM
- 1.7 GHz Power4+ Processors (32 total)
- AIX 5.3 Operating System
- Purpose: General purpose scientific computing
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 | - 32 nodes w/dual quad core Intel 5000 chipset - total 256 cores
- 2 quad core 2.5 GHz Intel 5000 chip/ node
- 8 GB of RAM / node
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server HPC Product
- Built by PSSC Labs
- 4.1 TB Storage
- Gigabit 10/100/1000 BaseT NIC
- Purpose: SVCL Research
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