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)