Moloch
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This page contains information on systems that are in happy retirement from the Computer Systems Lab.
Moloch is a "midrange" Sun Enterprise 4500 server. It was received as part of the NIH donation of Sun equipment.
It was suspected that Moloch was able to outperform our , even at supercomputing (just about everything can outperform the Cray at non-supercomputing tasks).
Field
Value
Server Type
Sun Enterprise 4500
CPU
464 MHz UltraSPARC-II
RAM
6144 MiB
Hard Disks
None?
OS
Solaris 10
Purchase Date
Moloch has no built-in disks or disk boards, and purchasing a disk board (no disks) from Sun would cost $1500. An external SCSI disk enclosure was purchased since netbooting off of was becoming a pain.