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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:

Budget

  • $35,000 (leaving $5,000 for discretionary spending)

Nodes

  • Intel Nehalem processors
  • 4 core processors
  • 1.5GB RAM per core

Specialty Nodes

  • Two nodes should support CUDA GPGPU

Network

  • Gigabit Ethernet fabric with switch