Gold

Overview of Gold

Gold is a small IBM Power5 system consisting of one front-end node and one compute node. The compute node is a Dual-Processor 1.5 GHz Dual-Core Power5 520 with 8 GB of RAM. This system is designed to be used only by users who have legacy IBM architecture-optimized or AIX-specific code. Gold is to help facilitate the porting of any code designed for the IBM SP system at Purdue, which was retired in 2008.

Detailed Hardware Specification

Number of Nodes Processor Cores per Node Memory per Node TeraFlops
1 Dual-Processor 1.5 GHz Dual-Core Power5 520 4 8 GB 0.024

Gold runs AIX 5.3 and uses PBSPro 9.x for resource and job management. Operating system patches are applied monthly or as security needs dictate. All nodes have been configured to allow for unlimited stack usage, as well as unlimited core dump size (though disk space and server quotas may still be a limiting factor).