The cluster consists of two different frames. The older frame contains 8 dual 1 GHz Intel Pentium III nodes, each with 2 GB of RAM. The nodes are connected with commodity 100Mbps Ethernet and high-end Myrinet-2000 networking hardware. The newer cluster frame consists of 16 dual AMD Athlon MP 2200+ nodes, each with 2 GB of RAM. These nodes are connected to both a 100Mbps and a Gigabit Ethernet network.
A central server acts as the front-end machine to the cluster, which handles job scheduling, commercial software and license management, and all system administration tasks. The cluster was designed, built, and managed by one of our graduate students, Mr. David Glaze.
