Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Hardware

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Supercomputing-class resources:

Bigben: Bigben is a Cray XT3 MPP system. It has a peak teraflops of 20 teraflops.
Rachel and Jonas: Both rachel.psc.edu and jonas.psc.edu are sets of SMP machines. Each machine has 64 1.15 GHz EV 7 processors and 256 Gbytes of shared memory. Rachel can be used by researchers affiliated with institutions in the United States. Jonas is dedicated to biomedical research.
Codon and Bioinformatics: Codon and Bioinformatics are front ends to a twenty node cluster. Each compute node has two 1.4 GHz AMD Opteron processors and 4 Gbytes of memory.
PSC File Archiver: golem.psc.edu, PSC's file archiver, is a combination tape-and-disk system with a total capacity of 2 Pbytes.

Linux front end: Linux front end pscuxa is used to access the supercomputing-class machines and for mail. pscuxa is a 1.6GHz dual-CPU Opteron system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (resembling other Unix systems) and has 2GB of memory and 80GB of mirrored local disk space.