nHPC centers agree on authentification policy
nHPC centers provide HPC platforms
�First
phase: Dedicated test systems
�Later:
Production systems
nVariety of platforms and batch subsystems:
�IBM
SP
�NEC
SX
�Cray
T3E
�SGI
O2K, O3K
�Intel-/Linux-cluster
�Alpha-/Linux-cluster
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