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Posted 2011/02/17

System G node

Virginia Tech has a famous Apple supercomputer called System X. There is also a more fun to play with cluster called System G made up of 324 Mac Pros. The G stands for "green" and when it was built it was the largest power-aware research system in the world.

Because Kirk helped get the grant for System G SCAPE gets some special treatment. Today I blagged one of the nodes to do development work on. Having one in my office lets me run my own power meter and I don't have to fight over it with the masses.

System G Node
Each node has two 4-core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processors 8 GB of RAM.