Table 2 Details of the computational resources used in the case study evaluations of the Grid infrastructure.
From: Towards a lightweight generic computational grid framework for biological research
Resource | Number of nodes | Specification of a single node | Operating System | RAM (Gb) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Server, Birkbeck, London | 1 | 4 × 2.66 GHz processors | openSUSE 10.2 | 4 |
Local cluster, Birkbeck, London | 22 | 8 × 2.6 GHz 64-bit processors | Rocks Cluster 4.3 | 16 |
Local cluster, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston | 15 | 2 × 3.6 GHz Xeon processors | Red Hat 3.4 | 2 |
Supercomputer, CINECA, Bologna | 1280 | 4 × Opteron Dual Core 2.6 GHz processors | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | 10240 |