HPVM II: A Pentium II Cluster

The HPVM Pentium Pro cluster is a multi-purpose computing environment, supporting both traditional high performance computing, networking and clustering research, and novel national information infrastructure applications.

The cluster configuration includes 32 nodes with a total of 64 processors, 24GB memory, and 128GB disk . It has been operational since January 1998. The cluster serves the following purposes:

High performance distributed applications and high performance computing testbed on Windows NT. This testbed is accelerating the porting of applications from the NSF Center supercomputing community to this environment. These efforts are being facilitated in conjunction with NCSA. If you are interested in using the cluster contact us.
High performance networking testbed which explores software and hardware architecture issues relating to clustering, high performance distributed applications, and high performance networking. This research is being pursued by the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group .
Novel applications testbed for high performance scalable and distributed applications, including scalable servers (web, digital library, etc.), scalable input/output, and visualization/data exploration. Remote interactive services are of particular interest.

Interconnects include:

Myricom's Myrinet, a 640-1280 Mbps, low latency local area interconnect
Compaq/Tandem's Servernet, an 400 Mbps, reliable system area interconnect
Switched 100 Megabit Ethernet

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Last updated March 1998

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