Major equipment, purchased largely through shared instrumentation grants, other grants, and university contributions from indirect costs, includes the following:
Compute Nodes
- 102 64bit Linux Based cores (~10 machines) with a total of 320GB of memory
- 156 64bit MacOS Based cores (~30 machines) with a total of 270GB of memory
Data Storage
Temporary Data Storage for beta testing
- 1 Network Appliance FAS3020 with 2TB of Online Storage
- 1 Network Appliance FAS3040c with 26TB of Online Storage
Tier 1 Data Storage
- Home directory serviced on ITS managed cluster with roughly 40TB of Online Storage
Tier 2 Data Storage
- 3 systems with a total of 102 TB of storage space
Tier 3 Data Storage
- Information Technology Facility (ITF) off-site data center
VMWare Servers – 4 total
- 4 Dell PowerEdge R710< >3@8x2.26GHz 1@12x226GHz Xeon Processing Cores72GB RAM1 64 Processor 2GHz Computational Cluster using Torq and Maui
- 1 56 Processor 2GHz+ Computational Cluster using Rocks
- Access to the University of Iowa Helium cluster, a 3508 processor core HPC system comprised of 359 compute nodes and 3 login nodes
Other Equipment
2 Color Printers
- 2 Black and white printers
- 1 Color duplex printer/copier/scanner
- 1 Black and white duplex printer/copier/scanner
- 1 Teleconferencing-A Polycom Viewstation FX H.323 multi-site videoconference system