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SGI Origin 200 (Harpo)
*Retired*

SGI Origin 2000 (Chico)
*Retired*

  • 4 x R12000 MIPS Processors
    • 270 MHz clock
    • 4MB L2 cache
  • 512 MB memory
  • gigabit ethernet adapter
    • 64 x R12000 MIPS Processors
      • 400 MHz clock
      • 8MB L2 cache
      • theoretical peak performance: 800 MFLOP/s / processor
    • theoretical system peak performance: 51.2 GFLOP/s
    • 64 GB memory (shared)
    • gigabit ethernet adapter
    • Infinite Reality2 graphics module




    SGI 750 Cluster (Karl)

    SGI Altix 3000 (Groucho,Zeppo)

    • 8 compute nodes, each node has:
      • 2 x Intel IA64 (Itanium) processors 733MHz clock
      • 2GB memory
    • 1 front-end node with:
      • 1 x Intel IA64 (Itanium) processor 733MHz clock
      • 2GB memory
    • Myrinet network
    • theoretical system peak performance: ~48 GFLOP/s
    • 128 x Intel Itanium 2 Processors
      • 900 MHz clock
      • 1.5MB L3 cache
      • theoretical peak performance: 3.6 GFLOP/s / processor
    • theoretical system peak performance: ~460 GFLOP/s
    • 128 GB memory (64GB shared)




    Disk Storage

    Tape Storage

    • 2 x SGI TP9100 Storage Arrays
    • 28 x 18GB fibre drives
    • STK 9730 DLT7000
    • desk side library with 30 slots
    • up to 2.1 TB of compressed storage