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From: Alessandro Cembran (cembran_at_chem.umn.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 11:37:20 CST

Michel,

The IBM blade center is a cluster
(http://www.msi.umn.edu/bladecenter/quickstart.html) with 8GB of memory
per node. It is a distributed memory system. Probably you were thinking
about altix, which is a shared memory system.

Alessandro

L. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thank you for your reply. Certainly, it'll be awesome to have the
> improved version of the program. I was also kind of surprised that it
> is taking such a long time to calculate the grids, specially on such
> powerful machines.
>
> And yes, the Blade is a shared memory machine (or I think so :)).
>
> Cheers,
> Michel