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)