Star is an IBM eServer p590 machine at the University of Texas at El Paso UTEP. It was acquired with the aid of an IBM Shared University Research Grant in 2005. Star will aid UTEP's faculty and its students in performing scientific research in the areas of biology, chemistry and physics among other fields.
| System Summary |
| Architecture | IBM POWER5 |
| OS | AIX / Linux |
| CPUs | 24 |
| Peak GFlop/s | 140.8 |
| Memory | 96GB |
| Storage | 5TB |