Neptune

Neptune is a 14 node IBM Power5 cluster running the AIX operating system housed at University of New Orleans. These nodes are coupled with high performance 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) [ neptune.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
• Cluster Storage
• 280 GB IBM disk NFS exports from CSM server