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Pandora

Pandora is an 8 node IBM Power7 constellation running the AIX operating system. Each node contains four 8-core Power7 processors running at 3.3GHz. It is capable of providing 10.24 TFlops of peak performance. The nodes are coupled with high performance InfiniBand interconnects (ref: Pandora User Guide).

  • 8 Power7 Parallel Computing Nodes (P755)
    • Four 8-core IBM Power7 3.3 GHz processors per node.
    • 4 threads per core.
    • 128 GB RAM per node.
    • 446 GB storage per node.
    • 12x InfiniBand network interface (120Gb/s).
    • Four 1Gb/s Ethernet interfaces.
    • AIX 6.1
  • 1 Power7 (P755) Head Node
    • Four 8-core IBM Power7 3.3. GHz processors.
    • 4 threads per core.
    • 128 GB RAM.
    • 746 GB storage.
    • 12x InfiniBand network interface.
    • 10 Gb/s Ethernet Interface.
    • Four 1Gb/s Ethernet Interfaces.
    • AIX 6.1
  • Storage
    • 1 TB IBM GPFS home storage
    • 19 TB IBM GPFS work storage

Last modified: November 13 2014 09:54:14.