Rossmann nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (RHEL5) and use portable batch system Professional 10 (PBSPro 10) for resource and job management.
Each faculty partner always has ready access to the capacity he or she purchases and potentially to more computing power when the nodes of other investors are idle.
Unused, or opportunistic, cycles from Rossmann are made available to XSEDE and the Open Science Grid using Condor software.
Rossmann gained worldwide attention in 1985 by determining the structure of human rhinovirus serotype14, HRV-14, one of about 100 known cold virus strains.
[3] The Rossmann cluster continues ITaP's practice of naming new supercomputers after notable figures in Purdue's computing history.