Imola Cluster

Contact: Dimitris Nikolopoulos

This cluster, built by the PEARL Lab, features four 8-way nodes with dual-core AMD Opteron Socket-F processors running at 2.4 GHz. Each node is organized in a NUMA topology with 8 dual-core processor sub-nodes, 2 GB of memory per processor sub-node and a HyperTransport interconnect. The nodes are connected with GigE. The cluster features customized OS modules for power management and memory management to achieve maximum efficiency in scientific HPC workloads.

Software Engineering Laboratory

Contact: Dimitris Nikolopoulos

(currently in McBryde 128. It is used by faculty members teaching software engineering courses, especially CS4704 software engineering capstone senior project course.

System X

Contact: Calvin Ribbens

URL: http://www.arc.vt.edu/arc/index.php

System X is a supercomputer assembled by Virginia Tech faculty members, staff, and students in the summer of 2003, comprising 1,100 Apple PowerMac G5 computers. System X is currently running at 12.25 Teraflops, (20.24 peak), and was last ranked #47 (November, 2006) in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At that time, it was still the most powerful system categorized by TOP500 as "self made" at any university. It is now part of Virginia Tech's suite of high performance computers being used for research.