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The HPCC community has been offered a SGI Altix 3000 (purchased in 2006), basically a half rack on wheels (20U or so). The Altix has 4 IA-64 processors (family Itanium 2)which aren't particularly fast (1.3 Ghz), but The Altix has 96 GBytes of memory and so is useful for some large Gaussian jobs which aren't particularly suited to running on our current HPCC cluster design (More details to come on this issue).

• Details about IA-64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64
• Details about Altix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix

It is running redhat AS2.1 (which definitely ages it) so basic Linux. The node has been configured to fit our environment and will provide

• /home from sharptail over ethernet
• /sanscratch from greentail over ethernet
• Openlava 2.2 stand alone installation
• icc/ifort version 8.1 on local disk
• Gaussian version ?.?? on local disk

In order to use the local compilers you must “source” the following files

  .  /opt/intel_cc_80.8.1-028/bin/iccvars.sh
  .  /opt/intel_fc_80.8.1-024/bin/ifortvars.sh
  

You can also find MKL libraries at /opt/intel/mkl60.

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