Summary

• Commodity-based and High-end Systems

  • Commodity Systems under evaluation ; CS1 - CS13
  • High-end systems from Cray, SGI, IBM and HP/Compaq
  • Serial CPU and Communications Performance; Evaluation Metrics

• Application performance

  • Molecular Simulation (replicated & distributed data)
    • DL_POLY, DLMULTI and CHARMM
  • Electronic Structure and Materials
    • NWChem, GAMESS-UK and CPMD
    • VAMPIR and instrumenting the GA Tools
  • Computational Engineering (ANGUS and SBLI)

• Notable Performance of Intel Xeon clusters with Myrinet:

  • CS10 Xeon / 2666 cluster with Myrinet-2k delivers on average 82% of AlphaServer ES45/1000.
  • Extreme Cost effectiveness of the CS12 Xeon / 2400 Cluster with Gbit Ethernet (Streamline) - delivers 75% of the AlphaServer ES45/1000.

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