BORGCUBE

To support our research in data assimilation the GeoComputing group operates a small cluster of four HP Proliant DL785 G5 machines. Each cluster node has the following technical specifications:

Backside of a BorgCube total number of cores 32
number of CPUs 8
type of CPUs AMD QuadCore Opteron 8384 (Shanghai)
clock speed 2.7 GHz
L2 cache (per core) 512 KB
L3 cache (per CPU) 6 MB
local memory 256 GB RAM
commissioned March 2009
decommissioned October 2020

After 11 years of loyal service the borg collective had to be decommissioned in late 2020 due to a rapidly increasing number of hardware failures. Parts of its hardware live on in a machine called oneoffour.