The Computer Science Department recently purchased a Compaq multiprocessor. This state-of-the-art cluster system is comprised of eight compute nodes and one head node. Each node is an Alphaserver DS10L powered by a Compaq EV67 processor running at 600 Mhz and has 512MB of RAM, total of 4.5GB of memory for the entire system. Compute nodes and the head node are interconnected by a fast Myrinet switch with each channel operating at 2.1Gb/s. At the peak rate the system will be able to handle over 5 billion floating-point operations per second. The system is housed in the MCEC building and will be used for teaching and research in science and engineering.
