Summary: Origin Properties

• Single machine image
  • it behaves like a fat workstation
    • same compilers
    • time sharing
  • all your old code will run
  • OS schedules all the hardware resources on the machine
• Processor scalability 2-512 cpu
• I/O scalability 2-300 GB/s
• All memory and I/O devices are directly addressable
  • no limitation on the size of a single program, it can use all the available memory
  • no limitation on the location of the data, all disks can be used in a single file system
• 64 bit operating system and file system
  • HPC Features: Checkpoint/Restart, DMF, NQE/LSF, TMF, Miser, job limits, cpusets, enhanced accounting
• Machine stability

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