Iridis
Iridis is the supercomputer of the University of Southampton. The latest generation is called Iridis 3 and was launched in 2010 when it was ranked position
- 74 in the top 500 world wide
- 25 of university owned supercomputers
- the largest university machine within the UK,
- the greenest machine in the UK
Useful links
- Live Iridis status (intranet)
- Iridis Documentation,Wiki and support forums (intranet).
- Some research projects using Iridis
- Iridis in the news
- iSolutions Iridis Pages (including application form for new users)
Technical specs (see more detailed info)
- 1008 Compute Nodes with 2 4-core 2.27 Ghz Nehalem processors (so 8 processor cores per node) providing over 72 TFlops
- at least 22GB of memory available to the user (32 nodes have 45GB), total of 22.4TB RAM
- currently ~110 TB of usable disk space
- Infiniband network throughout
- A video showing the machine in more detail from the BBC
The machine
