Ducky

Ducky is a 14 node IBM Power5 cluster running the AIX operating system housed at Tulane University in New Orleans. These nodes are coupled with high perormance switch interconnects suitable for parallel computing. One node is used as head node while the 13 nodes are serving as compute nodes.

• 13 Parallel Computing Nodes (p575)
• 8 IBM Power5 1.9 GHz processors
• 16 GB RAM
• 1 IBM High Performance (Federation) Switch network interface
• 4 1Gb Ethernet network interfaces
• 2 10/100 Ethernet network interfaces
• AIX 5.3
• 1 Interactive Node (p575) [ ducky.loni.org ]
• 8 IBM Power5 1.9 GHz processors
• 16 GB RAM
• 1 IBM High Performance (Federation) Switch network interface
• 4 1Gb Ethernet network interfaces
• 2 10/100 Ethernet network interfaces
• AIX 5.3
• 280 GB IBM disk NFS exports from CSM server