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Brecca

The Brecca Linux Cluster was purchased and installed in 2003. In June, 2003 it was ranked 124th position on the World’s Top 500 Super Computer list.

Brecca is located at Monash University, a VPAC Member University. The Cluster is accessible to Monash University Researchers and VPAC approved projects. Access to the cluster is accessible via grid protocols.

Specifications

  • 90 node, 180 CPU Linux Cluster based on Intel Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8 GHz cpus.
  • Interconnect via Myrinet.
  • Between 1 and 2 Gigs of RAM per node (total of 160 Gigabytes of RAM).
  • Open source Torque PBS Job Manager
  • Connected to Grid Australia
  • Cores: 180
  • Nodes: 90

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