Firefly (supercomputer)
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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|date=May 2019}}
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.Holland Computing Center. [http://hcc.unl.edu/firefly/index.php Firefly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617193431/http://hcc.unl.edu/firefly/index.php |date=2010-06-17 }}. Retrieved Sep. 11, 2012. Each node is connected to a high-speed, low-latency InfiniBand fabric.The Peter Kiewit Institute (2008). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psxHwaBY1sA PKI Holland Computing Center Deploys Quad-Core AMD Opteron]. Retrieved May 4, 2008.
The supercomputer ranked 43 of 500 in the Top 500 Supercomputing Sites list in November 2007The Top 500 Supercomputing Sites (November 2007) [http://www.top500.org/list/2007/11/100 TOP500 List - November 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114121114/http://www.top500.org/list/2007/11/100 |date=2007-11-14 }}. Retrieved Nov 14, 2010.{{Cite news|url = http://unothegateway.com/?s=firefly|title = Supercomputer dedication: Firefly is born|last = Muller|first = Taylor|date = Dec 14, 2007|work = The Gateway|access-date = Feb 22, 2016}} but has since dropped out of the top 500 since the Center's rating was not updated after upgrades.The Top 500 Supercomputing Sites (2008). [http://www.top500.org/site/systems/2896 Holland Computing Center at PKI] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613214124/http://www.top500.org/site/systems/2896 |date=2011-06-13 }}. Retrieved September 15, 2008.
References
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