PARALLAB's HARDWARE HISTORY
This table shows the HPC facilities that were operated by Parallab since its early days in 1985.
| arrival | machine type | #cpus | memory | peak | technology |
| 1985 | Intel hypercube | 64 | ? | ? | distributed memory; iPSC/2 with 16 vector nodes and two iPSC/1; i286 and i386 cpus; machines first owned by CMI/ANT |
| 1986 | Alliant FX/8 | 8 | 64 MB | ca. 94 Mflops/s | shared memory; proprietary vector cpus; 6 cpus in 1986, upgrade to 8 cpus in 1988 |
| 1991 | Alliant FX/800 (ask.uib.no) | 6 | 256 MB | 240 Mflops/s | shared memory; Intel i860 cpus (40 Mhz?) each with 256 KB cache; 3.3 GB disk |
| 1990 | Maspar MP-1 | 8192 (8K) | 128 MB | 275 Mflops/s | distributed memory; SIMD; MP-1208 model; 16 KB memory per cpu; 600 Mflops/s in 32-bit; 275 Mflops/s in 64-bit; VAX 3520 front-end; 8 disks with 5.8 GB total; NOTE: these disks cost 125,000 USD! |
| 1992 | Maspar MP-2 (yggdrasil.ii.uib.no) | 16384 (16K) | 1 GB | 2.4 Gflops/s | distributed memory; SIMD; MP-2216 model; upgrade of MP-1; 6300 Mflops/s in 32-bit; 2400 Mflops/s in 64-bit; 11 GB disk; picture: 1024 processors on one board! |
| 1993 | Intel Paragon XP/S (ginkgo.ii.uib.no) | 110 | 3.1 GB | 7.35 Gflops/s | distributed memory MIMD; Intel i860XP nodes (75 Mhz); 5 service nodes, 98 compute nodes each with 32 MB memory, 5 I/O nodes; 30 GB disk; picture: a cpu board |
| 1994 | Parsytech GC PowerPlus | 64 | 2.0 GB | 5.1 Gflops/s | distributed memory; 32 nodes with 2 PowerPC 601 (80 Mhz) and 4 communication cpus (T805, 30 Mhz); 64 MB memory per node; 2-D grid topology; 16 GB disk; 4 x Sparc-10 front-end; picture: a 2-cpu board |
| 1995 | DEC Alpha farm | 8 | 1.4 GB | 1.9 Gflops/s | distributed memory; cluster of 8 DEC AXP 21064 (EV45, 233 Mhz); 7x128 MB + 1x512 MB memory; 32 GB disk; FDDI interconnect |
| 1996 | Cray SGI Origin 2000 (ask.ii.uib.no) | 128 | 24.5 GB | 49.9 Gflops/s | distributed shared memory; 64 nodes with two R10000 (195 Mhz) and 384 MB memory; 700 GB disk |
| SGI Onyx2 (dontask.ii.uib.no) | 4 | 2.0 GB | 2.0 Gflops/s | R10000 (250 Mhz); 32 GB disk | |
| 1997 | Sun Ultra 30 cluster (bar-, bark-, kongle-, kvist.ii.uib.no) | 4 | 1.0 GB | 2.4 Gflops/s | distributed memory; cluster of 4 Sun Ultra 30 workstations (UltraSPARC-II, 300 Mhz, 256 MB); 100 mbits ethernet and SCI/Dolphin interconnect |
| 2002 | IBM p690 Regatta Turbo (tre.bccs.uib.no) | 96 | 320 GB | 499.2 Gflops/s | virtually shared memory; cluster of three 32-way p690 SMPs; power4 (1.3 Ghz); 64 + 64 + 192 GB memory; gigabit ethernet interconnect; ca. 7.5 TB external disk |
| 2002 | IBM 1300 cluster (fire.bccs.uib.no) | 64 | 64 GB | 80.6 Gflops/s | distributed memory; cluster of 32 2-way x330 nodes; Pentium III (1.26 Ghz); fast ethernet (100 mbits) interconnect; 18 GB disk per node (576 GB total); x340 front-end with two Pentium III (1 Ghz) |
| 2004 | IBM e1350 cluster (fimm.bccs.uib.no) | 172 | 258 GB | 825 Gflops/s | distributed memory; cluster of 86 2-way e326 nodes; AMD/opteron (2.4 Ghz); Gigabit ethernet interconnect; 25 nodes with SCI/Dolphin interconnect; 80 GB ATA disk per node (6880 GB total); three x346 storage nodes (2-cpu EM64T, 4 GB RAM, 144 GB disk) and 8 TB external disk storage |
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