Epic

Epic is a HP commodity linux cluster housed in a Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD). It runs CentOS Linux. It comprises 25 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures each of which contains 16 double-dense HP ProLiant BL2x220c G6 blades. Each of the compute node (blade) contains two hex-core Intel Xeon X5660 processors operating at 2.8 GHz with 24 GB of RAM. In total, there are 800 compute nodes providing 9600 cores and 18 TB of RAM to iVEC researchers. Each node contains a quad data rate (QDR) Infiniband card. Upon its debut in 2011, Epic entered the global Top500 supercomputing list at #87.

Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard (USA)
Compute Processors: Intel Xeon X5660 ‘Westmere’ (6-core, 2.8 GHz)
Memory: 18 Terabytes RAM (800 nodes, 24GB per node)
Operating System: CentOS Linux