The Iron Cluster

Iron is our AMD cluster. It is based on 2.9GHz AMD Quad-Core 2389 processors. There are 8 cores on the head node and 32 cores on the compute nodes. Each core has 4 GB RAM for a total of 128 GB of compute RAM and 32 GB RAM on the head node. Each node has 250 GB scratch disk space as well as access to 1.5 TB on a RAID array. It has both Gigabit and Infiniband interconnects.