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SGI Altix 4700

System Overview

SGI Altix is a shared memory machine, with a cc-NUMA architecture (Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access). Its hardware configuration is:

• 128 cpus Dual Core Montecito(IA-64). Each one of the 256 cores works at 1,6 GHz
• 8MB L3 cache and 533 MHz Bus.
• 2.5 TB RAM.
• Peak Performance : 819.2 Gflops
• 2 internal SAS disks of 146 GB at 15000 RPMs
• 12 external SAS disks of 300 GB at 10000 RPMS

Any other generic information about the system can be found at SGI web page:
http://docs.sgi.com/

Nord cluster JS20

System Overview

• 2 cpus Powerpc 970 at 2,2GHz.
• 4 GB RAM per blade.
• Peak Performance : 1.72 Tflops
• Gigabit interconnection network.
• SLES 10 SP1 Operating System.
   
• GPFS 3.1 filesystems:
• /gpfs/projects: 7,3 TB.
• /gpfs/home: 930 GB.
• /gpfs/apps: 930GB.