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Forge

Dell NVIDIA Cluster [forge]

In production as of October 3 2011.

Forge consists of 36 Dell PowerEdge C6145 quad-socket nodes with dual 8-core AMD Magny-Cours 6136 processors and 64 GB of memory. Each node supports 6 NVIDIA Fermi M2070 GPUs.

Ember

SGI Altix UV [ember]

Note: Not available as a NSF resource as of July 31 2011.

Ember consists of 4 SGI Altix UV 1000 systems each with 384 cores and 2 TB memory with Intel Xeon Nehalem-EX (6-core) processors.


MSS

Mass Storage System (MSS)

NCSA's hierarchical archival storage system is available for permanent storage of data. Access is via the FTP and SSH based transfer clients, including GridFTP clients. NCSA's mass storage now holds more than six petabytes of data and has the capacity to archive ten petabytes of data.