The "presidents" are a cluster of 24 IBM machines running Sun Grid Engine for grid computing as well as individual research programming.

Accounts on the presidents compute cluster are available to all faculty as well as grad students and outside collaborators whom they sponsor.

• Sun Grid Engine on DCIS research cluster (a brief description and getting started guide)
• Sun ONE Grid Engine Administration and User's Guide (Sun's complete documentation on the grid engine)
• Sun Grid Engine status (the current status, load, etc. on the presidents cluster)

Follow the above link for additional information.