About the Gecko Cluster

From HPC

A quick over view:

• 30 compute nodes 2x 2.5GHz Quad Core Intel Xeons with 8GB of memory (i.e. 8 jobs with 2GB memory each per node)
• Infiniband network for parallel computation
• openMPI (intel and gcc) for parallel computation across the inifiniband network.
• Sun Grid Engine 6 to manage job submission and queue management
• Intel C++/Fortran, GNU, Java 1.4,1.5,1.6 and R compilers
• Stata 10 se
• Also MPICH2 and SCORE for parallel computation, however these rely on gigabit ethernet which is much slower than the openMPI/ininfinband option.