CLUMEQ
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CLUMEQ is a Supercomputer
Consortium Laval UQAM McGill and Eastern Quebec based in McGill University
founded in 2001 and has received two successive grants from the Canada Foundation for innovation.
SGI Origin 3800
Krylov
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
Consortium Laval UQAM McGill and Eastern Quebec based in McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
founded in 2001 and has received two successive grants from the Canada Foundation for innovation.
Past
Beowulf ClusterBeowulf (computing)
A Beowulf cluster is a computer cluster of what are normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them...
- 256 CPUs
- AMD Athlon 1900+
- 1.6 GHz and 1.5 GB RAM / CPU
- Myrinet-2000 Switch
- 366 GB RAID-5 storage
SGI Origin 3800
SGI Origin 3000 and Onyx 3000
The Origin 3000 and the Onyx 3000 is a family of mid-range and high-end computers developed and manufactured by SGI. The Origin 3000 is a server, while the Onyx 3000 is a visualization system. Both systems were introduced in July 2000 to succeed the Origin 2000 and the Onyx2 respectively. These...
- Sixty-four 600 MHz MIPS R14000 microprocessors
- 128 GB RAM
- 1.6 TB storage
Current
Colossus- 960 Sun BladeSun BladeThe Sun Blade series was a computer workstation line developed and sold by Sun Microsystems from 2000 to 2006. The Sun Blade architecture was based on the UltraSPARC microprocessor family. The range replaced the earlier Sun Ultra workstation series....
X6275 nodes (7680 cores total) - 23 TB RAM
- InfinibandInfiniBandInfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable...
QDR network - 1000 TB storage
Krylov
- 48 Sun FireSun FireThe Sun Fire server brand is a series of server computers introduced in 2001 by Sun Microsystems . The Sun Fire branding coincided with the introduction of the UltraSPARC III processor, superseding the UltraSPARC II-based Sun Enterprise series...
X4100 nodes (300 cores total) - 384 GB RAM
- 15 TB storage