SGI Altix

Allowed Users

CNSI

Usage

Large Memory (>4Gb)

Specifications

16 processor Altix 350 SMP system with 32 Gb of RAM.

Description

This system has 32 gigabytes of shared memory so is well suited for jobs that require lots of memory, or tightly coupled parallelization.

Technical Details

The SGI Altix350 is a 16 processor system (1.4GHz Intel Itanium2 CPUs) with 32GB of shared main memory. There is a 73GB SCSI system disk, 73 GB SCSI home disk for user files, and a 300GB SCSI disk for temporary files (/scratch). The unique architecture makes this system appear as a single large SMP system, for simple, high performance parallel applications.