Firefly (computer)

Firefly (computer)

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

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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 80 of 500 in the Top 500 Supercomputing Sites list. [The Peter Kiewit Institute (2008). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psxHwaBY1sA PKI Holland Computing Center Deplys Quad-Core AMD Opteron] . Retrieved May 4, 2008.] [The Top 500 Supercomputing Sites (2008). [http://www.top500.org/site/systems/2896 Holland Computing Center at PKI] . Retrieved September 15, 2008.]

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