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Foil 5 NPAC Facility Computers and Networks

From Description of NPAC Computer and Network Facilities Visit of Team from ARL to NPAC -- Oct 29 97. by Roman Markowski


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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