Technologies & Products
System Assessment Capability Computer Cluster
The Hanford Site-Wide Assessment project operates a dedicated computer cluster with the following features:
- Operating system is Red Hat Linux 7.3
- Control CPU - two 1.7-Gb Pentium 4 processors
- 128 slave CPUs - 1-Gb Pentium 3 processors
- 4 slave CPUs - 2.3-Gb Pentium 4 processors
- 26 slave CPUs - 2.7-Gb Pentium 4 processors
- Two Linux analysis workstations, each with a 1.7-Gb Pentium 4 processor and 4 Gb of memory
- 5.2 terabytes of main disk space configured in a RAID-5 system
- 1.2 terabytes of scratch disk space (throughput into the scratch disk space is about 360 megabytes/sec)
- Tape backup system
- Uninterruptible power supply.
Each slave processor is connected into the main disk array with a dedicated 100 megabit/sec connection. The cluster controller and the analysis workstations are connected to the main disk array with dedicated gigabit/sec network connections. The entire cluster is connected to the Battelle internal network with gigabit/sec network connections.