The Intel Software Development Kit consists of a 4U rack server chassis with the new Intel Xeon E7-4860 CPU running @ 2.27GHz. The each of the E7-4860 CPUs have 10 physical cores and with Intel Hyperthreading 20 hardware threads presented to the OS making the machine an effective 80 core machine.

Each CPU has 4 x 4GB RAM running at 1067 MHz, therefore the machine has a total of 64GB RAM and could support up to 1TB (half of the RAM daughter-card sockets are unpopulated, each daughter-card is half populated and each RAM module could be four times more dense (2GB DIMMs replaced with 8GB DIMMs))

The Intel Software Development Kit has dual, mirror raided, 291GB 7200rpm hard disk drives

Networking consists of 4 Gigabit Ethernet Ports

Currently only CentOS 5.6 is installed

Future plan to add the Intel Compiler Suite

Future plan to add Intel Parallel Studio

Future plan to re-install Windows HPC for benchmark comparisons

Linpack

Intel LinPack

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