“‘Sun accounts for about of 800 processors out of a total of
1,500 we have in our clustering environment,’ says Vijay Agarwala,
director of high-performance computing (HPC) and visualization at
Penn State. “‘hese include servers using the SPARC, Xeon, and
Opteron processors.’“The University’s HPC needs are consistently expanding beyond
its capabilities. To keep pace with the demand, the organization
now adds new clusters with regularity. While older SPARC and Xeon
clusters remain an integral part of the operations, it recently
decided to establish a new and more powerful cluster built on Sun
Fire V20z units using AMD Opteron processors and running the Linux
operating system. These 2-way servers currently have 8 GB of RAM
with room for a maximum of 16 GB–which the University is planning
to take advantage of in the near future…”
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