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On 10/13/2016, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors on Ruby were removed from service. Please contact
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Ruby was named after the Ohio native actress Ruby Dee. An HP built, Intel® Xeon® processor-based supercomputer, Ruby provided almost the same amount of total computing power (~125 TF, used to be ~144 TF with Intel® Xeon® Phi coprocessors) as our former flagship system Oakley on less than half the number of nodes (240 nodes). Ruby had has 20 nodes are outfitted with NVIDIA® Tesla K40 accelerators (Ruby used to feature two distinct sets of hardware accelerators; 20 nodes were outfitted with NVIDIA® Tesla K40 and another 20 nodes feature Intel® Xeon® Phi coprocessors).