mudhead
- member of the fish family Cheilodactylidae. (source: Australian
Museum)
How and when machine obtained:
- Mudhead consists of 7 UP2000 dual Alphas 833HMz donated to us by Fugro
FSI.
History prior to arrival at UCC:
- Mudhead was an 8 machine (16 CPU) cluster doing seismic anaylsis for
Fugro FSI. The last dual alpha was used to replace Morwong
UCC history of machine:
- None as yet, we're still setting it up.
Current machine tasks:
Current software configuration:
Current hardware configuration:
- 2x 833MHz Alpha EV68 processors with 4MB cache
Future plans for machine:
- Finish putting together a cluster of sorts
Special notes:
- The onboard Adaptec SCSI card in the UP2000 does not play nicely with
Tru64 and needs to be disabled.
Thanks:
- Fugro Seismic Imaging for their donation of the new machine, and
- PXY and TRS for getting the new machine working.
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