University of Wisconsin - Madison cluster configuration

 

ParameterValueNotes
Clustered?YesTesting as five-node cluster
Platform typeVirtualVMWare (ESXi)
Processing hardware2 CoresAMD Opteron 6174, 2.2GHz
Operating systemRHEL6.5 Server, 64-bitLinux 2.6.32-431.1.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
Memory2048 MBonly setting JVM max, 4GB real memory per server
Allocated Storage50GB primary, 500GB datafilesystem type ext4
Persistence I/O93.6 MB/s 
Network I/O80MB/sbetween nodes

 

The five nodes are virtual machines, provisioned on a single physical blade.