Hardware

Polaris currently consists of 21 nodes (1 master, 20 slave nodes). Each node is powered by two AMD MP+ 1600 (1.4 GHz) processors, 1 GB of RAM, interconnected on a 3com fast ethernet switch. A 170 GB IDE-RAID is used for file storage.


Master Node

  • Tyan Tiger MP(S2460) Dual AMD Motherboard
  • AMD Athlon MP1600+ @ 266FSB
  • 2 x 512MB 266MHz DDR PC2100 Reg ECC DIMM
  • ATI Xpert98 8MB AGP Video Card
  • 52X CD-ROM
  • 3COM 905BTX PCI 10/100
  • 3COM 10/100/1000 PCI-X Server NIC
  • Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A 32BIT PCI ATA/100 4 CH w/ 128MB Low Profile PC100 ECC DIMM CL2
  • 4 x IBM Deskstar 60GXP 60GB 7200rpm Drives

Slave Node

  • Tyan Tiger MP(S2460) Dual AMD Motherboard
  • AMD Athlon MP1600+ @ 266FSB
  • 2 x 512MB 266MHz DDR PC2100 Reg ECC DIMM
  • 3COM 905BTX PCI 10/100
  • Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm ATA133HDD Drive