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- Each node contains dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 CPUs
- Each node has 8 GB of memory
- There is a head node and secondary controller and
they are connected via a high-speed Fibre Channel to the 2 Xserve RAID.
- Xserve RAID
- There are two fully configured Xserve
RAID which are seen in the bottom of the image.
- Each Xserve RAID has 14 hot-swappable
Apple 500 GB Drive Modules
- There is 14 terabytes of disk space.
- The Xserve RAIDs are configurated and
managed using Apple Xsan software.
- The
Apple Xserve G5 cluster configuration, includes over 170 open source
bioinformatics applications, like BLAST, mpiBLAST and HMMER provided by
the BioTeam's iNquiry.
- The Sun Grid Engine is used to manage and schedule
tasks among the nodes.
- The cluster activity is monitered with Apple's System
Admin tools, Sun Grid tools, and Ganglia.
- CBC is housed in an APC 47U rack mount system as show
in the accompanying image
- A total of 110 amp capacity of power is provided and
the power is distributed as one 30 amp and three 20 amp dedicated
circuits
- The UPS provides uninterrupted stable power to the
head node and secondary controller, Xserve RAIDs, and network switches
- Heat considerations
- Under
maximum load it produces approx. 30,380 BTUs
- Under
minimal loads it produces approx. 20,429 BTUs
- This resource is available to the CSU community.
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