Linux CPU farms
Memory Requirement : 200-300 MB/CPU for a simulation chain
Node specification
- Motherboard: ASUS p2b
- Dual CPU /node (currently total 64 CPU)
- PentiumII (450MHz) 32 CPU + Pentium III (600 MHz) 32 CPU
- 512 MB memory / node (1GB SWAP/node)
- 14 GB HD /node (system 4GB, work 10 GB)
- 100 BaseT Ethernet interface (DECchip Tulip)
- Linux Redhat 5.2 (kernel 2.2.11 + nfsv3 patch)
- Portable Batch System (PBS V2.1) for batch queuing
- AFS is accessed through the NFS (No AFS client is installed on Linux pc)
- Daily mirroring of the /afs/rhic contents to a local disk file system is carrying out
PC Assemble (Alta cluster)
- Remote hardware-reset/power control, Remote CPU temp. monitor
- Serial port login from the next node (minicom) for maintenance (fsck etc.)