HP Proliant Itanium-2 Cluster

The HP Itanium-II Cluster is a research resource intended for testing and running large codes, distributed parallel-processing codes, large memory codes, and it is also a test-bed for research groups who may want to explore some features and applicability of cluster computing to their respective research areas.

Number of processors	64 Intel Itanium-II @1.3GHz
Architecture	Intel IA-64
System interconnect	Gigabit Ethernet
Nodes	32 dual cpu nodes
Memory	8GB per node (256GB total)

General Usage

• Accessing the system.
• File system usage
• User environment modification

Installed Software

• Using the Batch Processing Facility. Sun Grid Engine(SGE)
• Compilers
• mpi
• Vtune