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SuperMike

SuperMike is a 512 node Linux cluster constructed from commodity PC hardware. Built in 2002 by Atipa Technologies, SuperMike was named after the LSU mascot Mike the Tiger.

In 2004, SuperMike was upgraded from its original specification to what is listed below. This upgrade was partially funded by the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network with NIH Grant Number P20 RR16456 from the BRIN/INBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources.

  • 512 Compute Nodes
    • Dual 3.06 GHz Pentium IV Xeon Processors
    • 2 GB Ram
    • Myrinet Lanai 10 revision D low-latency interface
    • 10/100 Ethernet network interface
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  • 4 Login Nodes
    • Dual 3.06 GHz Pentium IV Xeon Processors
    • 2 GB Ram
    • Myrinet Lanai 10 revision D low-latency interface
    • 10/100 Ethernet network interface
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  • Cluster Storage
    • 32 TB Panassas High-Performance disk
    • 4 TB NFS-mounted DaemonRaid NAS disk
    • 800 GB IBM "Shark" SAN disk

Last modified: November 01 2016 13:18:22.