Information Technology
SUG@R System Overview

09-Mar-2009


1072 Processors:

  • 134 dual processor quad core nodes (SunFire x4150), 16GB RAM per node, 2.83GHz clock speed.
  • 816 cores available to all users. The remainder are available to specific participants.

Processor Specifications:

  • 2.83GHz Intel Xeon E5440 quad core processors.

Cache Specifications:

  • L2: 6MB cache per processor.

Network Interconnect:

  • Gigabit Ethernet on all nodes.

Storage:

  • NFS (/users for user home directories)
  • NFS (/projects for group allocations)
  • Panasas PanFS (/shared.scratch parallel filesystem for temporary storage and job I/O).
  • 100GB local storage on each node (/scratch, contents deleted when job exits).

Software Stack:

  • Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 with kernel 2.6.18
  • Intel Compiler and Debugger.
  • GNU Compiler and Debugger.
  • Totalview parallel debugger.
  • Torque 2.3.0 batch manager.
  • Maui 3.2.6 batch scheduler.
  • OpenMPI.
  • Public software in /opt/apps.
  • Private software in /users or /projects.

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