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Revision as of 14:36, 15 December 2009
Damascus is the working name for the Earlham Computer Science Department's upcoming cluster computer.
At the moment Damascus exists only as a $40,000 grant and a growing list of specifications:
Contents
Budget
- $35,000 (leaving $5,000 for discretionary spending)
Nodes
- Intel Nehalem processors
- 4 core processors
- Possibly six cores depending on cost
- 1.5GB RAM per core
Specialty Nodes
- Two nodes should support CUDA GPGPU
Network
- Gigabit Ethernet fabric with switch
