Atlas Nodes

2 x 3 GHz 4 Mb Cache Xeon 5160 (dual core) with 1333 MhZ FSB

8 Gb 667 MHz DDR2-Ram

2 x 73 Gb 15,000 RPM SAS Hard drive (Raid 1)

Helios Nodes

4 x 2.8 GHz 1 Mb Cache AMB 2220 SE Opteron (Dual Core) with 1 GHz HT bus

16 Gb 667 MHz DDR2-Ram

2 x 146 Gb 15,000 RPM SAS Hard drive (Raid 1)

Apollo Graphics Terminals

2.66 GHz 4 Mb Cache E6700 Core 2 (dual core) with 1066 MHz FSB

4 Gb 667 MHz DDR2-Ram

2 x 250 Gb 7,200 RPM SATA II Hard drives (Raid 0)

DVD+RW Drive (Dual Layer)

Nvidia Quadro FX 3450 256 Mb Graphics Card

20" Ultrasharp LCD monitor

Staff have access to a range of Fortran and C compilers on the cluster as well as Mathematica, Matlab, OX and IMSL Fortran numerical libraries. The clusters are configured for undertaking parallel processing computations with either LAM or MPICH.

Staff within the School also have access to supercomputing resources at the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Cummunications (aC3).