 The NIC/router combination, called SeaStar, is the only custom ASIC component in the system and uses a PowerPC 440 based core.When deployed in 2005, Red Storm’s initial configuration consisted of 10,880 single-core 2.0 GHz Opterons, of which 10,368 were dedicated for scientific calculations.The remaining 512 Opterons were used to service the computations and also provide the user interface to the system and run a version of Linux.