Merope was a cluster composed of repurposed Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere) processors that were once part of the Pleiades supercomputer.

The system is used both for running real-world computational jobs for NASA scientists and engineers and for testing purposes.

Housed in an auxiliary processing center located about 1 kilometer from the NAS facility at NASA Ames Research Center.

[1] Merope (pronounced MEH-reh-pee) is named after one of the seven stars that make up the Pleiades open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.

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