Hardware Resources

The systems available at VCPC are:

• gescher, an heterogeneous Beowulf cluster consisting of 2 homogeneous subclusters and and a front-end node. The subclusters consist of:
  • 16 nodes: single Pentium 4 (3.06GHz) with 2GB DDR RAM communicating over Gigabit Ethernet,
  • 16 nodes: quad Pentium III Xeon (700MHz) (SGI 1450) with 2GB ECC RAM communicating over Myrinet.

  The cluster has two frontends which are dual Pentium 4 Xeon (2.4GHz) PCs with 4GB DDR RAM.

  The the file and batch server is a dual Pentium 4 Xeon (2.4GHz) PC with 3GB DDR RAM and 480GB RAID-5 user disk-space.

  A Fast-Ethernet network connects all computers in the cluster.

• A heterogeneous network of SUN workstations.

• A dual Pentium II (400MHz) PC running Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server to provide support for MS Windows® based software. Access is through Citrix MetaFrame® from any Workstation at VCPC or the Institute for Software Science of the University of Vienna.