Hardware
Neptune is a 11 node Opteron Cluster.
It comprises of a head node and 10 compute nodes.
Overview
Each node has the following configuration
- Two AMD Opteron(248) 2.2 GHz processors
- 4 GB RAM
- 250 GB and 2 x 80 GB HD (Head node)
- 80 GB HD(compute nodes)
- Two Gigabit Ethernet ports
Interconnect: SMC 8524T 24 Port GigE switch.
Shown below is the picture of an individual compute node.
![]() Microway Navion 1U Dual Opteron Chassis |
*Microway,Navion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microway, Inc.
Detailed Specifications:
Head node Configuration
- (2) AMD Opteron 248 with 1 MB L2 Cache
- (4) 1 GB DDR 400 MHz ECC/Reg Low Profile Memory
- (2) 80 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA II (3GB/s) 8MB Cache NCQ
(OS Drives - Mirrored - RAID 1) - 250 GB SATA II (3Gb/s) 7200 rpm w/16 MB cache Hard Drive
- Two Gigabit Ethernet ports
- Integrated 8MB ATI RAGE XL Graphics Controller
Compute nodes Configuration
- (2) AMD Opteron 248 with 1 MB L2 Cache
- (4) 1 GB DDR 400 MHz ECC/Reg Low Profile Memory
- 80 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA II (3GB/s) 8MB Cache NCQ
- Two Gigabit Ethernet ports
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