Walton
Walton was the very first system deployed by ICHEC and was an IBM Cluster 1350 consisting of 479 compute nodes. Each compute node had two single core CPUs and 4 GB of RAM and the network fabric was Gigabit Ethernet.
Sep '05 - Nov '08
Operational Life
3.14 TFlop/s
Linpack Performance
System Specifications
- 479 IBM e326 compute nodes
- each node contained 2 single core AMD Opteron 250 CPUs
- 415 of these nodes had 4GB RAM and 64 had 8GB RAM
- interconnect via a single Force10 E600 Gigabit switch
- 13.0 TiB Disk Storage
- IBM GPFS parallel filesystem
- IBM DS4500 storage controller
