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Wexstan

Wextan is a 64 bit Opteron Linux Cluster with 32 Opteron 246 CPUS with 64 Gb Ram and 0.5 Terabytes of Hard Disk Storage.

Specifications

  • 64 bit Opteron Linux Cluster
  • 32 Opteron 246 CPUs with 64 Gb Ram and 0.5 Terabytes of Hard Disk Storage

Server Details

    16 IBM e325 nodes, consisting of:

  • Management/Logon Node
  • 1 x Dual Opteron 256 @ 2 GHz, with 4 Gb RAM, 36 Gb SCSI HDD
  • Compute Nodes: 15 x Dual Opteron 256 @ 2 Ghz, with 4 Gb RAM, 36 Gb SCSI HDD
  • Backbone Interconnect: Myrinet
  • Operating System: Fedora Core 5
  • Job Manager: Torque
  • System Software: Gcc, Intel Compiler, Pathscale Fortran Compiler (has been removed)

Further information

Cores: 64
Nodes: 32

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