The Spitfire compute cluster at Southampton is now flying high, with very high utilisation on projects from aeroacoustics and electromagnetics, to environmental science and genetic optimisation of Rolls-Royce engines.

The cluster consists of 64bit dual-core AMD Opteron based machines that support a total of 304 independent processes, 800GB memory and 30TB storage space. Software installed on the cluster includes Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition, MS SQL Server 2005, Windows Workflow Foundation, Fluent and Matlab.

For more details see the poster at: http://www.soton.ac.uk/ses/research/mshpci/posters.html

or read the launch press release at: http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2006/jun/06_75.shtml