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Hardware Configuration of the MACI SGI's at the U of A

January 23, 2004: This page is an archive/history page.
Up-to-date information is at: http://www.ualberta.ca/CNS/RESEARCH/WestGrid/index.html

The Updated Hardware Configuration Table, which includes both the new WestGrid machines and the older MACI machines, is available at: http://www.ualberta.ca/CNS/RESEARCH/WestGrid/hardware.html

Aurora (SGI Origin model 2000):

  • 44 Processors (195MHZ,IP27):
    • CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.6
    • FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.6
  • Main memory size: 12032 Mbytes
  • Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 4 Mbytes
  • Fabric RAID

photo of Aurora (Borealis is in the background)

Photo of Aurora in the foreground and Borealis in the background. Click on the picture to see a 320 x 240 image.

Borealis (SGI Origin model 2400):

  • 64 Processors (400MHZ,IP27):
    • CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5
    • FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.5
  • Main memory size: 16384 Mbytes
  • Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes
  • Fabric RAID
Photo of Aurora/Borealis in January 2000Photo of Borealis in the foreground. Click on the picture to see a 720 x 480 image.

Australis (SGI Origin model 3800):

  • 64 Processors (400MHZ,IP35):
    • CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5
    • FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.5
  • Main memory size: 32768 Mbytes
  • Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes
  • Fabric RAID

Photo of Australis taken on January 7, 2002.

Photo of Australis. Click on the picture to see a 576x476 image.

A high resolution 2560 x 1920 photo is also available.

Corona (SGI Origin model 300):

  • 32 Processors (500MHZ,IP35):
    • CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 1.4
    • FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 1.4
  • Main memory size: 16384 Mbytes
  • Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
  • Fabric RAID
Photo of SGI MACI Complex (with Corona and Helios)Photo of Australis, Corona and Helios. Photo taken on May 21st, 2002.

Click on the picture to see a 890 x 1226 image.

Helios (SGI Origin model 300):

  • 32 Processors (500MHZ,IP35):
    • CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 1.4
    • FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 1.4
  • Main memory size: 16384 Mbytes
  • Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
  • Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
  • Fabric RAID
Photo of SGI MACI Complex (with Corona and Helios)Photo of the MACI SGI complex including Corona and Helios (Helios is on the left).

Photo taken on May 21st, 2002. Click on the picture to see a 720 x 600 image.

The Disk Subsystem (SGI TP9400):

  • Two controllers with 512 Mbytes
  • 4 FE Hubs / 4 BE Hubs size: 32 Kbytes
  • /usr/global: 143 Gbytes
  • /scratch_large CXFS 2.3 Tbytes
  • /scratch_many CXFS 286 Gbytes

photo of TP9400

Photo of the front of the TP9400. Click on the picture to see a 418 x 664 image.
More background information, for all the machines, is available: Photos and arrival history file, or contact: research.support@ualberta.ca

Revised: January, 2004.
Copyright © 2004 by University of Alberta. All rights reserved.
Diagram of the SAN fabric.Our network and SAN diagram from March is available (we have lost 2 processors in aurora, and re-configured the file system, since March; however the network connections have not changed). Just click on the thumbnail image to get a 1059x814 version of the diagram.
 
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