Firefly (computer)

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The Firefly computer is a high-performance computer cluster housed at the Holland Computing Center located inside of the Peter Kiewit Institute.

[edit] Specifications

The system runs on 1,151 compute nodes each which run two quad-core processors with four gigabytes of memory. Each node is connected to a high-speed, low-latency Infiniband fabric. The supercomputer ranks 43 of 500 in the Top 500 Supercomputing Sites list.^[1][2]

[edit] References

1. ^ The Peter Kiewit Institute (2008). PKI Holland Computing Center Deplys Quad-Core AMD Opteron. Retrieved May 4, 2008.
2. ^ The Top 500 Supercomputing Sites (2008). Holland Computing Center at PKI. Retrieved May 4, 2008.

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