University of Toronto
High Energy Physics Group
BigMac Cluster
BigMac is a Beowulf IBM Linux cluster in the Physics Department at
the University of Toronto. It was
founded by CFI
(Canadian Foundation for Innovation) mainly for HEP computing. A more
complete description of the cluster can be found
here.
The computing resources for Bigmac consist of rack-mounted 1U
systems:
- 224 x 2.4 GHz dual Intel Xeon, 2 GB RAM compute nodes with 36 GB
local IDE disk
- Two 2.2 GHz dual Intel Xeon, 2 GB RAM master nodes
- 14 x 2.2 GHz dual Intel Xeon, 4 GB RAM storage nodes with 28 TB
SCSI disk (22.4 TB available storage after RAID5)
- One 2.8 GHz dual Intel Xeon, 1 GB RAM storage node with 4 TB
RAIDed IDE disk (2.85 TB available storage)
- Two 2.4 GHz dual AMD Opteron 250, 4 GB RAM storage nodes with 8 TB
RAIDed SATA disk (11.0 TB available storage)
BigMac is connected to the GTAnet 1 Gbit/sec University of Toronto backbone.
