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Maxwell - Sun Fire V880
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About Maxwell
The Sun Fire V880 (host name: maxwell) consists of 8 SPARC III+ processors and 16GB of shared memory. It is named after James Clerk Maxwell, who did revolutionary work on electricity, magnetism and the kinetic theory of gases. Sun Solaris 9 is the operating environment for Maxwell.
While Maxwell is primarily intended to support commercial applications, its architecture is also suitable for OpenMP and threaded applications. The Sun ONE Studio compliers provide high levels of optimization.
System Specification
Each CPU is a 64-bit UltraSPARC III+ processor, running at 1.2 GHz, with a theoretical top speed of 4.8 GFlops/sec.
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Maxwell – Sun Fire V880 |
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Processor type
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UltraSPARC III+, 1.2 GHz
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Processor theoretical peak
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4.8 GFlops/sec
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Number of application processors
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8
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System theoretical peak
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38.4 GFlops/sec
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System physical shared memory
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16 GBytes
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Usable disk space
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280 GBytes
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File Storage
Account holders will be allocated disk space on the home directory. The disk space is limited to the quota approved. Applications for additional disk quota will be subject to approval.
In addition to the home directory, Maxwell has a shared temporary directory (/tmp). The current size of this temporary directory is 10 GBytes.
Compilers
Sun ONE Studio 8 (commands provided: cc, CC, f77, f90, f95)
Sun HPC Cluster Tools 5.0 (commands provided: mpcc, mpCC, mpf90, mprun)
Software Available
TBA
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