Resource History

Arrival	Machine Type	#CPUs	Memory	FLOPS	Technology
1985	Intel hypercube	64	?	?	distributed memory; iPSC/2 with 16 vector nodes and two iPSC/1; i286 and i386 cpus; machines first owned by CMI/ANT
1986	Alliant FX/8	8	64 MB	ca. 94 Mflops	shared memory; proprietary vector cpus; 6 cpus in 1986, upgrade to 8 cpus in 1988
1991	Alliant FX/800 (ask.uib.no)	6	256 MB	240 Mflops	shared memory; Intel i860 cpus (40 Mhz?) each with 256 KB cache; 3.3 GB disk
1990	Maspar MP-1	8192 (8K)	128 MB	275 Mflops	distributed memory; SIMD; MP-1208 model; 16 KB memory per cpu; 600 Mflops/s in 32-bit; 275 Mflops/s in 64-bit; VAX 3520 front-end; 8 disks with 5.8 GB total; NOTE: these disks cost 125,000 USD!
1992	Maspar MP-2 (yggdrasil.ii.uib.no)	16384 (16K)	1 GB	2.4 Gflops	distributed memory; SIMD; MP-2216 model; upgrade of MP-1; 6300 Mflops/s in 32-bit; 2400 Mflops/s in 64-bit; 11 GB disk; picture: 1024 processors on one board!
1993	Intel Paragon XP/S (ginkgo.ii.uib.no)	110	3.1 GB	7.35 Gflops	distributed memory MIMD; Intel i860XP nodes (75 Mhz); 5 service nodes, 98 compute nodes each with 32 MB memory, 5 I/O nodes; 30 GB disk; picture: a cpu board
1994	Parsytech GC PowerPlus	64	2.0 GB	5.1 Gflops	distributed memory; 32 nodes with 2 PowerPC 601 (80 Mhz) and 4 communication cpus (T805, 30 Mhz); 64 MB memory per node; 2-D grid topology; 16 GB disk; 4 x Sparc-10 front-end; picture: a 2-cpu board
1995	DEC Alpha farm	8	1.4 GB	1.9 Gflops	distributed memory; cluster of 8 DEC AXP 21064 (EV45, 233 Mhz); 7x128 MB + 1x512 MB memory; 32 GB disk; FDDI interconnect
1996	Cray SGI Origin 2000 (ask.ii.uib.no)	128	24.5 GB	49.9 Gflops	distributed shared memory; 64 nodes with two R10000 (195 Mhz) and 384 MB memory; 700 GB disk
1996	SGI Onyx2 (dontask.ii.uib.no)	4	2.0 GB	2.0 Gflops	R10000 (250 Mhz); 32 GB disk
1997	Sun Ultra 30 cluster (bar-, bark-, kongle-, kvist.ii.uib.no)	4	1.0 GB	2.4 Gflops	distributed memory; cluster of 4 Sun Ultra 30 workstations (UltraSPARC-II, 300 Mhz, 256 MB); 100 mbits ethernet and SCI/Dolphin interconnect
2002	IBM p690 Regatta Turbo (tre.bccs.uib.no)	96	320 GB	499.2 Gflops	virtually shared memory; cluster of three 32-way p690 SMPs; power4 (1.3 Ghz); 64 + 64 + 192 GB memory; gigabit ethernet interconnect; ca. 7.5 TB external disk
2002	IBM 1300 cluster (fire.bccs.uib.no)	64	64 GB	80.6 Gflops	distributed memory; cluster of 32 2-way x330 nodes; Pentium III (1.26 Ghz); fast ethernet (100 mbits) interconnect; 18 GB disk per node (576 GB total); x340 front-end with two Pentium III (1 Ghz)
2004	IBM e1350 cluster (fimm.bccs.uib.no)	172	258 GB	825 Gflops	distributed memory; cluster of 86 2-way e326 nodes; AMD Opteron single core (2.4 Ghz); Gigabit ethernet interconnect; 25 nodes with SCI/Dolphin interconnect; 80 GB ATA disk per node (6880 GB total); three x346 storage nodes (2-cpu EM64T, 4 GB RAM, 144 GB disk) and 8 TB external disk storage
2008	Cray XT4 (hexagon.bccs.uib.no)	5552	6064 GB	51.7 Tflops	massively parallell processor (mpp); 1388 compute nodes, 1 AMD Opteron quad-core (2.3 GHz) per node; Cray Seastar2 3D-torus interconnect; no internal disk on the nodes; 12 I/O nodes (AMD Opteron dual-core, 8 GB RAM); 254 TB external disk storage (3 DDN S2A9550 couplet controllers)
2012	Cray XE6m-200 (hexagon.bccs.uib.no)	22272	22272 GB	204.9 Tflops	massively parallell processor (mpp); 696 compute nodes, 2 AMD Opteron 16-core (2.3GHz "Interlagos") per node; Cray Gemini 2.5D-torus interconnect; no internal disk on the nodes; 24 I/O nodes (AMD Opteron 6-core, 16 GB RAM); 258 TB external disk storage (3 LSI 5480)

An early version of this list was compiled by Fredrik Manne.

See the Overview of Recent Supercomputers for more detailed specifications of these computers.

A description of the facilities that are currently operated by Parallab can be found here.