What is BoB?

  • BoB is Notre Dame's "Bunch-o-Boxes" Beowulf cluster.
  • BoB is the 445th fastest computer in the world! (June 2003)
  • BoB is built out of 106 commodity dual-processor desktop computers. Each computer has 2x 1.7 GHz Xeon processors, 1 GB RDRAM, 40 GB HD and a Gigabit Ethernet card.
  • BoB lives in 266 Stepan Chemistry, a cooled machine room constructed by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
  • BoB is administered by Dr. J. C. Ducom of the Science Computing Facility (SCF).
  • 25% of the compute cycles on BoB are available to researchers in the Colleges of Science and Engineering who were not authors of the original grant proposal.
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Updated on July 8, 2002