The following information describes Squall and provides access instructions. As a result, Squall is not intended for DoD users, nor will it be able to house any DoD data. Applications for accounts will also be reviewed for intrinsic merit and relevance of the research or project, suitability and need for parallel architecture, and past experience with relevant hardware architecture. System Description P2SC System Squall is a 32-node P2SC IBM SP system. Each node on frame 1 contains 1 GB memory and each node on frame 2 contains 512MB of memory.
All nodes have local scratch storage.
Users will compile and submit their programs to Squall from Jaws . All user file systems will be mounted on Jaws , as will a NFS-mounted scratch file system named. 1.2 GB After each run. The majority of system file systems have been replicated from Typhoon onto the Squall file server. The new logical volumes reside on a new 60GB RAID-5 SSA disk array.