U of I Cluster

[Don Laur <dlaur@siu.edu>]

> U of Illinois announces a 640 Xserve Cluster.

> <http://www.macminute.com/2005/02/01/univ-illinois-cluster/>University 
> of Illinois to launch 640-node Xserve cluster
> February 1 - 17:17 EST   The University of Illinois is the latest 
> institution to build a Mac-based supercomputer cluster. The university 
> is currently finalizing the <http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/turing/>Turing 
> Cluster, which is made up of with more than 600 Apple Xserves. 
> "Located in the Digital Computer Laboratory, the Turing Cluster 
> consists of 640 Apple Xserves, each with two 2GHz G5 processors and 
> 4GB of RAM, for a total of 1280 processors. The primary network 
> connecting the cluster machines is a high-bandwidth, low-latency 
> Myrinet network from Myricom. In addition, all machines in the cluster 
> are also connected by a 100 Mbs switched, full-duplex Ethernet using 
> switches from Cisco Systems, and there is a 1 Gbs link between the 
> front-end array and the primary Cisco switch. The operating system for 
> the Turing Cluster is Mac OS X Server, currently version 10.3. The 
> Turing Cluster was provided by Apple Computer under a combination 
> purchase/donation agreement.

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