MSU Chemistry Department
Supercomputer Facility
Hardware
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The department's Origin 3400 is composed of the three racks
pictured above. The two purple racks (left and center) contain
processors, memory, routers, I/O cards and a few drives. The black rack
on the right contains additional fibre channel disk drives. Listed
below is a more detailed description of the hardware:
- Processors
- 32 400 MHz R12000 CPUs
- 8 MB cache per CPU
- Memory
- Drives
- one 18 GB system disk
- three 36 GB fibre channel disks
- twenty 18 GB fibre channel disks
- one CDROM drive
- one 8-slot DLT7000 tape autochanger
- I/O Cards
- six fibre channel controllers
- one differential SCSI card with 2 controllers
- one Gigabit Ethernet card
MSU Department of Chemistry / Supercomputer Facility