University Computing Services

UCS Supercomputing Gallery

A chronicle of the high-end inhabitants of the UCS machine room from 1985 to the present.

RS/6000 SP system

168 Power 3 processors
375 Mhz, 1/2 Gbyte of memory each
2 interactive nodes, each with four processors
3 Tbytes of disk space
40 Tbytes of archival storage
Installed July 2000- present

 

Silicon Graphics Inc., Origin 2000

18 Processors (250MHz MIPS R10000 CPUs)

4.5 Gigabytes Memory

9 GigaFLOPS Peak Speed

Installed December 1998 -July 2000

 

2 Silicon Graphics Inc., Power Challenge XLs

10 Processors (1st machine), 8 Processors (2nd machine)

2048 Megabytes Central Memory

3600 MegaFLOPS (1st machine), 2900 MegaFLOPS (2nd machine) Peak Speed

Installed July 1995, Departed December 1998

 

Cray Research, Inc., CRAY Y-MP/432

4 Processors

256 Megabytes (32 Megawords) Central Memory

1300 MegaFLOPS Peak Speed

Installed April 1990, Departed October 1995

 

ETA Systems ETA10-G

4 Processors

32 Megabytes (4 Megawords) Local Memory per Processor

5000 MegaFLOPS Peak Speed

Installed April 1989, Departed April 1990

Cooled by liquid nitrogen

The only ETA10-G ever in operation; at the time, the fastest computer in the world

 

ETA Systems ETA10-Q

2 Processors

32 Megabytes (4 Megawords) Local Memory per Processor

800 MegaFLOPS Peak Speed

Installed February 1989, Departed November 1991

Air-cooled

The biggest "piper" ever built

 

ETA Systems ETA10-E

4 Processors

32 Megabytes (4 Megawords) Local Memory per Processor

1500 MegaFLOPS Peak Speed

Installed October 1987, Removed April 1989

Cooled by liquid nitrogen

The first ETA10 in operation

 

Control Data Corporation Cyber 205

1 Processor

32 Megabytes Central Memory

200 MegaFLOPS Peak Speed

Installed March 1985, Removed October 1989