( 1 ) What is your HPC system being used for?
Computational Fluid Dynamics
( 2 ) How many blades, CPUs and cores are you using?
Two nodes, each with two dualcore Opteron CPUs plus one node with two quadcore Opterons
( 3 ) What OS are you running?
Fedora
( 4 ) What clustering tools are you using? (version?) - e.g. Sun Grid Engine, MPI, etc
LAM-MPI and MPICH
( 5 ) How are you interconnecting?
Gigabit Ethernet
( 6 ) Who is the CPU manufacturer?
AMD
( 7 ) How much RAM per node?
1.5GB per core
( 8 ) What is your Rmax, Rpeak?
Not tested
( 9 ) What are the key applications?
OpenPBS, OpenFOAM, Paraview
( 10 ) What are the cool applications you are running?
When in the USA I was running OVERFLOW - a US Army / NASA CFD code on this cluster
( 11 ) What is your biggest technical or operational bugbear?
Speed of the interconnect
( 12 ) What is your next step in technology?
Infiniband and CUDA for GPU acceleration
( 13 ) How many users?
One
( 14 ) Do you use virtualisation?
No
( 15 ) What software development process do you use. And tools? Language? Frameworks?
Portland Group Fortran
( 16 ) Do you have a public ganglia?/em>
No
( 17 ) How do 3rd parties get to use your machine?
Not open
(18) Any additional questions and observations?