Ziggy is owned by Prof Chris Hunter and the Centre for Molecular Informatics. The cluster comprises a headnode and 8 compute nodes purchased by Prof Chris Hunter and 16 compute nodes migrated from an older cluster (swan).
It has these features:
8 Nodes with:
- Two eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 (2.60GHz, Ivy Bridge) CPUs
- 128 Gb RAM per node
- Gigabit Ethernet interconnect
16 Nodes with:
- Two twelve-core Intel Xeon X5650 (2.67GHz, Westmere) CPUs
- 24 Gb RAM per node
- Gigabit Ethernet interconnect
Ziggy is intended for serial task farming, and small-scale parallel MPI jobs.
