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Cairo Cluster
The servers which make-up the Cairo cluster were purchased with a grant from the Arthur Vining
Davis Foundation. That grant also purchased most of the network interconnect. Apple Incorporated
gave us a discount on the servers.
Architecture
Hardware
| Nodes |
16
Apple XServes
Thermal info
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| Processor |
Dual G4
Power PC 999 MHz
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| L2 Cache |
256 KB |
| L3 Cache |
2 MB |
| Front Side Bus Speed |
133 MHz |
| RAM |
1 GB PC2100 DDRAM |
| NIC |
2 10/100/1000BT (one on-board, one PCI; different
chipsets) |
| Hard Drive |
IBM Ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM w/ 2MB cache
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| Disk Space |
60 GB |
| Motherboard |
Apple Proprietary
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Network Fabric
System Software
| OS |
Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 3.2.2-2a
(Kernel 2.4.20-8smp) |
| gcc Version |
3.2.2 |
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