The CFD computing cluster currently consists of 192 Pentium 4 processors running Linux, with the addition of 2 racks of dual-processor, dual-core AMD Opteron processors in progress, this ongoing work is being performed to obtain a total of 544 processors. This cluster currently has 6 terabytes of storage.
Parallelisation between nodes is achieved by the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) protocol through ethernet links, and parallelisation between cores in the Opteron processors is achieved through the OpenMP API. Management of this system is through a high-speed fibre-optic link to the CFD lab, and monitoring is performed through the Ganglia open-source distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing.
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