In August 1995 the Theory cluster
acquired a Cray EL98, with a peak speed over 1Gflop.
In Q3 1996, the cluster
will take delivery on its second Cray supercomputer, which is
expected to be a J916, as pictured below.
pion is the central machine for the High Energy Theory research group. pion is a Sun Microsystems Sparc 10 with four Ross CPUs and 128MB memory. It provides both computational and general facilities to its users.
barus, a Sun Sparc 20 with 96MB memory, is the Department of Physics central Unix facility. All graduate students have access to barus.
hbar, a Sun Sparc 5 with 32MB memory, provides support services to the High Energy Theory group.
tauneu, lepton, and quark are Silicon Graphics workstations used by members of the High Energy Theory group for local small- to medium-scale computation.
purgatory, taichi, and yollabolly are IBM RS/6000s available to the Condensed Matter Theory group for local calculations.
Additional computing facilities are provided by Computing and Information Services in the Center for Information Technology.