IfA Xeon/Opteron Computing Cluster
Hardware
Summary
- 6 nodes + 1 head node
- Total: 344 cores and 2.1 TiB real memory and 46 TiB of storage
- Peak Performance: 3.1 Tflops
- 8.2 TiB Raid array mounted as /home
- 19 TiB Raid array mounted as /disk1 (cech)
- 19 TiB Raid array mounted as /disk2 (aam/wkmr)
Specific
- Head node is a single Viglen HS316i 3U unit:
- Dual Xeon E5430 2.66 GHz quad-core processors
- 32 GiB memory
- Quoted 2008-06-16
- Delivered 2008-08-25
- Operational 2009-02-09 (lag because no server room)
- 3 nodes are Viglen HX445Ca:
- Quad AMD Opteron 6168 @ 1.9 GHz 12-core processors per node
- 192 GiB memory (shared) per node
- Ordered 2011-05-27 (?)(£26801)
- Delivered 2011-08-10
- Operational 2011-09-06
- 2 IGM (Meiksin) & 1 IfA (Peacock)
- Nodes 030-032
- 3 nodes are Dell PowerEdge R815
- Quad AMD Opteron 6380 @ 2.5 GHz 16-core processors per node
- 512 GiB memory (shared) per node
- Ordered 2013-06-21 (£31,120)
- Delivered 2013-09-17
- Operational 2013-10-16
- Purchased for Sadegh Kochfar's group
- Nodes 046, 047, 048
- 20 TB RAID:
- Weak Lensing Group
- Ordered 2010-07-19 (£4306) from Viglen
- Delivered before 2010-09-26
- Operational 2010-12-06
- /disk1
- 20 TB RAID:
- IGM & Planetary formation groups
- Ordered 2012-2-24 (£3515)
- Delivered 2012-3-20
- Operational 2012-8-6
- /disk2
The Opteron 6168 is from AMD's K10 Magny-Cours line, having 12MiB of L3 cache but only 10MiB is visible with the HT Assist feature activated using 2MiB as a directory cache. 80W and released in March 2010.
The Opteron 6380 is from AMD's Piledriver Abu Dhabi line, 16MiB L2 & L3 cache. 115W and released November 2012.