Eugene
| Eugene |
Eugene is a 27 TF IBM Blue Gene/P System operated by the NCCS. Eugene has approximately 45 million processor hours available exclusively for use by ORNL staff and for the promotion of research collaborations between ORNL and its core university partner members : (Duke University, Florida State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, University of Virginia, University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) .
Eugene consists of 2048 850Mhz IBM quad core 450d PowerPC processors and 2GB of memory per each node. Eugene has a front-end node for user logins and compiling of codes. Users submit their jobs from this front-end node and cannot directly login to a compute node. Eugene has 64 I/O nodes and each submitted job must use at least one I/O node. This means that each job consumes a minimum of 32 nodes per execution.
