Computing Facilities

The grid points in the HKGrid are interconnected by the HARNET (The Hong Kong Academic and Research NETwork). The table below outlines the distributed computing resources.

Institution	CPU	Memory	Internal network
City University of Hong Kong (CS)	2-way P3 1GHz x 1	1GB	-
Hong Kong Baptist University (CS)	2-way Xeon 2.8GHz x 64	~130GB	Gigabit Ethernet
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (CS)	P4 2GHz x 1	512MB	-
The Hong Kong Institute of High Performance Computing	2-way P3 1GHz x 1	1GB	-
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Dept. of Computing)	2-way P3 1GHz x 1	1GB	-
The University of Hong Kong (Computer Centre)	2-way Xeon 2.8GHz x 128 2-way P3 1GHz x 32 2-way P3 800MHz x 8	~340GB	Gigabit Ethernet
The University of Hong Kong (CSIS)	P4 2GHz x 300 P3 733MHz x 32 P2 200MHzx 18	~160GB	Fast Ethernet