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Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
Nighttime would find me in Rosa's Cantina
Music would play and Felina would whirl...
(El Paso, Marty Robbins, 1959)

Felina is a Cray XD1 Linux Cluster with 36 dual-core AMD 2.2 GHz Opteron processors, 144 GB RAM, 1.5 TB disk space and a 317 peak GFlops rating. The system is used to develop and test new scalable numerical methods for computationally intensive applications in science and engineering (hp-FEM group).

Felina was purchased by Dr. Pavel Solin using funds from ONR Award No. 05PR07548-00.

News

  • 09/01/08 - New administrator: David Andrs
  • 11/26/07 - Machine up again after a forced shutdown due to water leaks in server room
  • 07/03/07 - Machine up again after a forced shutdown due to power issues in server room.
  • 09/19/06 - Kernel upgrade on all nodes to revision 38.
  • 07/03/06 - Distributed home directories.
  • 07/03/06 - Scratch directories (see User Guides).
  • 02/21/06 - Enabled quotas: 11GiB per user, 30GiB per all users.
  • 02/03/06 - Planned unavailability time during the weekend 02/11-02/12 due to renovation of electric power distribution in server room.
  • 02/01/06 - Installed NetCDF and HDF5, see FelinaSoftware.
  • 02/01/06 - Significantly increased security.
  • 01/31/06 - Felina upgraded to software release 1.3.

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