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HPC Computer Cyclone
"Cyclone"is 64 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.
"Cyclone" is an SGI Altix Bx2 with 64 Itanium 2 CPUs and 121 Gytes of memory.
It is connected to the HPC SAN storage infrastructure for both local scratch and shared home directories.
Computer name: Cyclone (cyclone.hpcu.uq.edu.au)
Manufacturer SGI
Model Altix 3700 Bx2
CPUs 64 x Intel Itanium 2 (1500Mhz)
Memory 121 GByte
Configuration Gigabit Ethernet
30GByte System disk
643GByte local scratch disk
Operating System Linux 64 "SGI ProPac 3" (based on RedHat AS 3)
