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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.[citation needed]

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]

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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