Power challenge XL is a SGI  Supercomputer with 4xR8000 CPUs with the following features:

*  RISC Technology

* Symmetric multprocessing

* 3D Graphics Computing

O/S:  IRIX 6.0

Hostname: monsoon.tropmet.res.in

 Hardware :

• MIPS R8000 SSR  Four CPUs/75 MHz

• MFLOPS DP (100x100) : 101 per CPU

• 4 MB Cache Memory per CPU

• 512 MB RAM (2x2 way Interleaved Memory)

• 32 GB Hard Disk

• 8 mm 5 GB Exabyte Drive

• 600 MB CROM

• IRIX 6.0 Operating System- 64 bit Implimentation of AT&T Unix

• X-Window system

• IRIS Showcase

• IRIS Insight

• Irix Development option

• Graphics Library(GL)

• C Compiler

• Fortran77 Compiler

• Parallel Fortran Compiler( Power Frotran)

• IMSL Fortran Numerical Library

• Challenge Complib Scientific Math Library

• Network File system