Manifold.astro.psu.edu

A powerful new cluster for the numerical relativity group.

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Specifications

• (1) Head node
  • Dual 2.2 GHz Xeon Processor
  • 4 GB DDR RAM
• (39) Compute nodes
  • Dual 2.2 GHz Xeon Processor
  • 2 GB DDR RAM
• (1) Terabyte (TB) RAID
  • Bulk storage for output of simulations
  • 12 Redundant, hot-swappable, cheap IDE drives
• Dual network topology
  • 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet
  • 2+2Gb/s Myrinet
• (6) UPS

User's Guide

Revision 1.4 ( HTML | PDF | PS )

Acknowledgments

We would like to the thank the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics (an NSF Physics Frontier Center) and Penn State University for their gracious funding with which this cluster was built. Manifold was purchased from Atipa Technologies.