Ducky

[ ducky.loni.org ]

Ducky is one of LONI's 14-node IBM Power5 clusters, running the AIX operating system and housed at Tulane University in New Orleans. These nodes are coupled with high performance switch interconnects suitable for parallel computing. One node is used as the interactive node while the other 13 nodes serve parallel computing requests.

• 13 Parallel Computing Nodes (p575)
• 8 IBM Power5 1.9 GHz processors
• 16 GB RAM
• 1 IBM High Performance (Federation) Switch network interface
• 4 1Gb Ethernet network interfaces
• 2 10/100Mb Ethernet network interfaces
• AIX 5.3


• 1 Interactive Node (p575) [ ducky.loni.org ]
• 8 IBM Power5 1.9 GHz processors
• 16 GB RAM
• 1 IBM High Performance (Federation) Switch network interface
• 4 1Gb Ethernet network interfaces
• 2 10/100Mb Ethernet network interfaces
• AIX 5.3


• Cluster Storage
• 280 GB IBM disk NFS exports from CSM server

High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Telephone: 225-578-0900
Fax: 225-578-6400
E-mail: sys-help@loni.org
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