The purpose of Academic Research Computing is to provide compute power for the research community at UMKC.
Available systems include a VMS cluster, Tru64 machine, a Beowulf cluster and a potential new system.
Where 1 is most importannt and 5 is least important.
| Item | Focus_Group_Member | Mean | |||||
| -1- | -2- | -3- | -4- | -5- | -6- | ||
| CPU Speed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.17 |
| # CPUs | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2.5 |
| Real Memory | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2.67 |
| Disk Space | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3.83 |
| Disk IO | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4.83 |
The results of this survey determined the configuration of the HP rx7620(Sirius) purchased in the spring of 2004.
