VT ARC Sun Systems

Dante and Styx are two Sun compute servers available at VirginiaTech for general research applications:

Dante Dante is a Sun Fire v480 system running Solaris 9 which provides Virginia Tech researchers with access to high performance computing on a Sun Microsystems hardware platform and supports IMSL, SAS, MATLAB, and R which are not currently available on the VT compute server Inferno. The Dante system currently contains: Four 900 MHz CPUs 16 GB memory Two 36 GB fiber-channel drives External storage on the Virginia Tech NAS.

Styx Styx is a Sun Fire v490 system running Solaris 10 which provides Virginia Tech researchers with access to high performance computing on a Sun Microsystems hardware platform and supports SAS, MATLAB, and R which are not currently available on the VT compute server Inferno. Four 1.5 GHz UltraSparc IV+ CPUs 16 GB memory Two 146 GB fiber-channel drives 1.5 TB external storage shared from Inferno