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Computing Clusters

Mastodon

Construction of the Mastodon cluster is made possible, in part, by the NSF under CISE Research Infrastructure Grant EIA-0303609. If you write a paper about research done using Mastodon, please acknowledge this grant in your paper.

The IBM xSeries 360 machines were donated by IBM under a 2003 IBM Shared University Research (SUR) grant.

Mastodon includes over 1500 processor cores, including both Intel Xeons and AMD Opterons, running a mix of 32bit and 64bit Linux. These machines are available to the faculty, staff, and students of the UT Computer Sciences Department. All that is required to use them is a UTCS UNIX login account. For information on getting started, see the UTCS local Condor documentation.

All of the computers in the cluster are running the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, with job scheduling handled by the Condor software developed by University of Wisconsin CS Dept.

More Info

• Mastodon Utilization Graphs
• Mastodon Schematic

Configuration

The Mastodon cluster consists of the following hardware: