Firefly (computer)

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.

Firefly logo

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]

gollark: You don't want ~~terrorists~~ viewbombers do you?
gollark: The only way to be sure.
gollark: For the hub, anyway.
gollark: I imagine they mostly refresh a lot and click report sometimes.
gollark: Hail the eternal moderators!

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. 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.
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