Manchester Infrastructure
The following information is about the Manchester computational node "man2.nw-grid.ac.uk".
- One part full compute node rack (25 nodes, 100 cores) with dedicated Gig-E MPI network
- High-bandwidth network to storage rack
- Dual Gig-E connection from NFS server to storage network
- Gig-E connection from front end systems to storage network
- Two gigabit connections from each front end to provide four gigabits to external network
- Each compute node has 8GB RAM (2GB per core). Also 3 of these 25 compute nodes has 16GB RAM (4GB per core)
- Each compute node consists of AMD dual core 2.4 GHz dual processors
