( 1 ) What is your HPC system being used for?
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Nuclear engineering analysis

( 2 ) How many blades, CPUs and cores are you using?
40 DL160G5 servers, (2 x Intel Xeon quad-core E5472@3GHz and 16GB ram each)
2 DL580 utility nodes, (4 x Intel Xeon quad-core X7350@2.93GHz and 64GB ram)

( 3 ) What OS are you running?
Linux for High Performance Computing 4.5 (Swift)
[based on Red Hat EL AS release 4 (Update 5)]

( 4 ) What clustering tools are you using? (version?) - e.g. Sun Grid Engine, MPI, etc
HP XC System software V3.2.1

( 5 ) How are you interconnecting?
Infiniband DDR

( 6 ) Who is the CPU manufacturer?
Intel

( 7 ) How much RAM per node?
16GB / 64GB

( 8 ) What is your Rmax, Rpeak?
Rmax = 3840 Gflops; Rpeak = 3046 Gflops

( 9 ) What are the key applications?
Atilla, Fluent, MCNP, Star-CD

( 10 ) What are the cool applications you are running?
Big HVAC units to cool the server room.

( 11 ) What is your biggest technical or operational bugbear?
System was fully loaded 24 hours after commissioning - we could have used more power.

( 12 ) What is your next step in technology?
Not planned yet - looking at Nehalem.

( 13 ) How many users?
~30

( 14 ) Do you use virtualisation?
No.

( 15 ) What software development process do you use. And tools? Language? Frameworks?
n/a. This is a production system running off the shelf or pre-compiled software.

( 16 ) Do you have a public ganglia?
No.

( 17 ) How do 3rd parties get to use your machine?
Not allowed.

( 18 ) Any additional questions and observations?
No.