Firefly (supercomputer)

This article is about the UNO Firefly. For other computer topics, see Firefly (disambiguation).

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The Firefly computer is a high-performance computer cluster housed at the Holland Computing Center located inside of the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska Omaha.^{[ citation needed ]}

Specifications

The system runs on 1,151 compute nodes, 871 have quad-core AMD Opteron processors and 280 have dual quad-core processors. All have eight gigabytes of memory. ^[1] Each node is connected to a high-speed, low-latency InfiniBand fabric. ^[2]

The supercomputer ranked 43 of 500 in the Top 500 Supercomputing Sites list in November 2007 ^{[3] [4]} but has since dropped out of the top 500 since the Center's rating was not updated after upgrades. ^[5]

References

1. Holland Computing Center. Firefly Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved Sep. 11, 2012.
2. The Peter Kiewit Institute (2008). PKI Holland Computing Center Deploys Quad-Core AMD Opteron. Retrieved May 4, 2008.
3. The Top 500 Supercomputing Sites (November 2007) TOP500 List - November 2007 Archived 2007-11-14 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved Nov 14, 2010.
4. Muller, Taylor (Dec 14, 2007). "Supercomputer dedication: Firefly is born". The Gateway. Retrieved Feb 22, 2016.
5. The Top 500 Supercomputing Sites (2008). Holland Computing Center at PKI Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved September 15, 2008.