Bon (Blackbox) is a cluster consisting of eight Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers.
Each server contains two Intel Xeon E5420 2.5 GHz Quad-Core processors
and 8 GB of physical memory, yielding a total core count of 64 and a total memory capacity of 64 GB.
Each server has a local 300 GB 15K RPM SAS drive used for operating system and transient file storage.
NFS is used to access a Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI RAID array that has two shared partitions:
a 5.37 TB partition for user files and a 2 TB partition for shared application files.
Blackbox runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Cluster and has the
Condor job queuing and scheduling system from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
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