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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Research Computing Facility

Homestead Hardware

RCF is an Origin 300 Supercomputer from Silicon Graphics Inc. The information below was provided with the system by SGI .
Number of processors 32
Type of processors 64-bit MIPS RISC R14000 500MHz
Primary caches 32KB two-way set-associative on-chip instruction cache
32KB two-way set-associative on-chip data cache
Secondary cache 500 MHz: 2MB ECC cache/processor
Memory 16GB ECC RAM with 630MB/sec sustained,
3200MB/sec peak bandwidth.
24GB of swap space is also available
I/O slots 16 full-size 64-bit 66 MHz 3.3 V/universal PCI, 420MB/sec sustained
Internal SCSI Eight 160MB/sec Ultra3 SCSI channels
External SCSI Eight 160MB/sec Ultra3 SCSI channels
Storage Seven 18GB internal SCSI harddrives
Two Fiber Channel RAIDS with 169GB and 102GB capacity respectively
One 59GB SCSI-SCSI RAID
One 805GB SCSI-IDE RAID
Communication Eight 10/100 Base-T/TX Fast Ethernet ports
One Gigabit port for backup link
24 115.2 Kbaud serial ports
Eight NUMAlink ports
Eight XIO ports
Eight RTO outputs/RTI inputs
16 USB ports
Eight L1 ports
System Bandwidth 44.8GB/sec
Cooling N+1 redundant cooling per module
NUMAlink CPU capacity 32 processors interconnect via NUMAlink cable in a rack with an 8-port NUMAlink router and power bay