NPAC Facility Computers and Networks

Networking Technologies

FDDI

ATM

Fast Ethernet

Ethernet

ISDN

Wireless

T1/T3

LAN Backbone

LAN and WAN (NYNET)

High performance LAN

Shared and Switched

Dial-in

Inter-building

Internet access

Compute Engines

IBM SP2 MIMD parallel machine

4 wide(590) 8 thin (390) nodes

256 MB RAM each

Parallel Oracle RDBMS

AIX 4.1.4, 160 GB HDD

SGI Challenge L 8xR10K

1.6 GB RAM, 50 GB HDD

IRIX 6.2

IBM SP2 in Cornell (ATM link)

Workstation Clusters

Alpha farm 8 DEC Alpha 3000-400S

switched FDDI, 64 MB RAM

Ultra SPARC 8 workstation (2 processor)

ATM OC3c, 256 MB RAM, 12 GB HDD

PC cluster 2 Quad PC ALR, Fast Ethernet,

144 GB HDD, 4 Dual PC, 8 Pentium Pro

Auxiliary Infrastructure

Gigaswitch - switched FDDI

4x ASX 200 - ATM OC3, TAXI, ATM25

PowerHub 7000 -ATM, FDDI, FE, Ethernet

2x LANplex 2500 - switched ethernet

Cisco 2500 - ISDN BRI

Sun, SGI, IBM, DEC workstations

PC Windows NT/95 network

Mac cluster

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