| Server Hardware | Opteron-based
SMP, 4 or more CPU cores, 4 GB or more RAM Minimum of 2GB/core. 3GB or more per core recommended for larger data sets. |
Xeon 5100, 5300 -
based SMP, 4 or more CPU cores, 4 GB or more RAM Minimum of 2GB/core. 3GB or more per core recommended for larger data sets. |
Itanium - based
SMP 4 or more CPU cores 4 GB or more RAM Minimum of 2GB/core. 3GB or more per core recommended for larger data sets. |
| Server Examples |
IBM: LS 20, LS 21, LS 41; x3655, x3755 HP: ProLiant BL25p, DL145G, DL385, DL585 Sun: SunFire x4100, x4200, x4600 Newisys: 4300-E, Verari 2510, Penguin-Altus3400 |
IBM: HS 21; x3550, x3650; x3400, x3500 SGI: Altix XE, Altix ICE HP ProLiant:BL20p G4, DL140 G3, DL360 G5, DL380 G5 Dell PowerEdge: 1950, 1955, 2950 Penguin Relion: 1600, 2600 Verari:RM2220, VB1220 |
SGI Altix (IA64) |
| Server OS | 64-bit
Linux RHEL 4.1 or higher, or SLES 9.2 or higher, or Fedora 4 or higher, or Ubuntu 8.04 |
64-bit
Linux RHEL 4.1 or higher, or SLES 9.2 or higher, or Fedora 4 or higher, or Ubuntu 8.04 |
SGI ProPack 4 (SUSE SLES 9) or SGI ProPack 5 (SUSE SLES 10) |
| Client hardware | Desktop or laptop, IA32 or x86/64 architecture | Desktop or laptop, IA32 or x86/64 architecture | Desktop or laptop, IA32 or x86/64 architecture |
| Client OS | Redhat
Fedora Core 3 Linux or higher SUSE Linux 9.3 or higher Ubuntu 8.04 Microsoft Windows XP, Vista |
Redhat
Fedora Core 3 Linux or higher SUSE Linux 9.3 or higher Ubuntu 8.04 Microsoft Windows XP, Vista |
Redhat
Fedora Core 3 Linux or higher SUSE Linux 9.3 or higher Ubuntu 8.04 Microsoft Windows XP, Vista |
| Client-server interconnect | 100
Mbps or higher GigE recommended |
100
Mbps or higher GigE recommended |
100
Mbps or higher GigE recommended |
| Cluster | Compute nodes with 2 or more cores recommended, minimum of 2GB/core, 3GB or more per core recommended for larger data sets.
|
Compute nodes with 2 or more cores recommended, minimum of 2GB/core, 3GB or more per core recommended for larger data sets. GigE or Infiniband interconnects. Shared file system required. |
n/a |
| Python | Version 2.5 | Version 2.5 | Version 2.5 |
| MATLAB® | R2006a to R2008b | R2006a to R2008b | R2006a to R2008b |