Big Red is one of the most powerful university-owned computers in the US. Part of a
comprehensive strategy to build an advanced cyberinfrastructure to
support research at Indiana University, Big Red has a theoretical peak
performance of more than 30 teraflops, and has achieved more than 21
teraflops on numerical computations.
System Specifications
| Primary Use |
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| High performance parallel computing system. |
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| Server Information |
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| TFLOPS |
30 theoretical, 21 on numerical computations |
| Processor Cores |
2 |
| CPUs |
2 |
| Nodes |
768 |
| RAM |
8GB 533MHz DDR-2 SDRAM |
| Current Rank in Top 500 |
282 |
Local Scratch Storage
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73GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) |
| Further Details |
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| Node |
Dual-core PowerPC 970 MP processors |
| OS |
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
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| Network |
2 Gb Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet |
| Job Management Software |
IBM's LoadLeveler and the Moab Workload Manager |
| Storage |
Connected via DataDirect Network S2A9550 Storage Controllers each dual-pathed to 5 SAF 4248 Chassis |
| Applications |
List of packages
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