ACTL Systems Information

Multiple systems configured for research, porting, optimizing and production work flows:

  • IBM Power5
  • Intel Clovertown cluster with Spraycool technology
  • Intel Woodcrest cluster
  • AMD Opteron
  • SGI Altix with FPGAs.

DOE-MICS sponsored cluster with various interconnects including Quadrics Elan3, Myrinet, Gig-E and Infiniband.


SGI Altix

PNNL has purchased an SGI Altix for general purpose high performance computing at PNNL. The system is open to all PNNL staff members doing 1830 work. The system runs a single copy of Linux over 128 Intel Itanium2 processors running at 1.5GHz. In addition the system has 256GB of RAM and 1/2TB of disk space.

Currently Altix1 supports the following applications:

  • StarCD
  • MSC.MARC
  • MM5
  • CCM
  • NWChem
  • ADF

If you would like support for an application added please email AltixRequests@exchange.pnl.gov.

Contact: Jarek Nieplocha | Webmaster: Shan Osborn | Updated: June 2006