Sunday 22 Nov, 6:00pm - Compute service outage commences
Monday 23 Nov, 8:00am - Storage service outage commences
Monday 23 Nov, 12:00pm - Outage completes
HPC Computer Gust
"Gust" is a 16 CPU Parallel computing system running the Linux operating system.
The CPUs connect through a high speed fabric to directly share and access a single memory space.
This architecture minimises memory latency to provide increased efficiency of parallel tasks.
"Gust" is an SGI Altix with 16 Itanium 2 CPUs and 30 Gytes of memory.
It is connected to the HPC SAN storage infrastructure for both local scratch and shared home directories.
Computer name: Gust (gust.hpcu.uq.edu.au)
Manufacturer: SGI
Model: Altix 3700
CPUs 16 x Intel Itanium 2 (1500Mhz)
Memory: 30 GByte
Configuration: Gigabit Ethernet
30GByte System disk
450GByte local scratch disk
Operating System: Linux 64 "SGI ProPac 3" (based on RedHat AS 3.0)