The Parallel Processing Group has local access to a wide variety of parallel systems including:
- Multicore / multiprocessors:
- A custom built 24-core server
- » CPUs: 2 x AMD Opteron 6166 (12 cores each)
- » Memory: 16 GBytes
- An Intel SR6850HW4 server
(a generous donation to the PPG by Intel Corporation).- » CPUs: 4 x Intel Xeon 7000 Paxville @ 3GHz (2 hyperthreaded cores per CPU)
- » Memory: 8 GBytes
- An assortment of 2- to 8-core workstations.
- A custom built 24-core server
- Clusters:
- A 16-node cluster with SUN X4100 nodes and GBit Ethernet interconnections
- » 2 CPUs per node, 2 cores per CPU (AMD Opteron 200 series)
- A 200-node cluster with ~ 1TiB memory
- » 2 CPUs per node (AMD Opteron 200 series)
- » High-capacity GBit Ethernet switch (> 380Gbps)
- A 16-node cluster with SUN X4100 nodes and GBit Ethernet interconnections
- GPUs, accelerators:
- NVIDIA GPUs
- ATI GPUs
- A Parallella-16 board by Adapteva
- » 2-core ARM host + 16-core Epiphany III coprocessor
- A Parallella-64 board by Adapteva
- » 2-core ARM host + 64-core Epiphany IV coprocessor
- Legacy:
- SGI Origin 2000
(48 x MIPS R10000 @ 250Mhz + 16 x MIPS R12000 @ 300MHz) - SGI Origin 200 (4 x MIPS R12000 @ 360Mhz)
- Compaq Proliant ML570 SMP (4 x Intel PIII Xeon @ 700Mhz)
- SGI Origin 2000
In addition, the group has remote access to larger and specialized systems, through its international partnerships and collaborator network.