Bluegrit is a 116 core PowerPC cluster run by the iClass group at UMBC. If you need an account on this system, please feel free to request an account through the support form.
The bluegrit cluster consists of 32 dual-processor PowerPC compute nodes, 13 dual-processor dual core PowerPC compute nodes, one PowerPC user node, one Intel based head node, and a large Intel based NFS server.
Each node has two 2.2GHz PowerPC 970 processors, and 512MB of RAM. The dual core nodes have 2.3GHz processors and 2GB of RAM. The NFS server (storage001) currently has 2.2TB of storage total, 2.5GB of memory, and two 3GHz Intel Xeon processors. The head node (mgt) is a two processor 2.8GHz Xeon system with 256MB of RAM.
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