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HPC2N - High Performance Computing Center North System hardware and software overview

HPC2N - High Performance Computing Center North System hardware and software overview. 010652000 - INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL COMPUTING Professor, TkT Jari Porras. HPC2N - High Performance Computing Center North Umea University Sweden. HPC2N Super Cluster.

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HPC2N - High Performance Computing Center North System hardware and software overview

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  1. HPC2N - High Performance Computing Center NorthSystem hardware and software overview 010652000 - INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL COMPUTING Professor, TkT Jari Porras Igor Monastyrnyi

  2. HPC2N - High Performance Computing Center NorthUmea University Sweden Igor Monastyrnyi

  3. HPC2N Super Cluster • 120 nodes, dual Athlon MP2000+ (1.66GHz) • 1GB memory per node • Wulfkit SCI high speed interconnect Igor Monastyrnyi

  4. Hardware Rack chassis 2AMD Athlon MP2000+ runs at 1.667 GHz 1 Tyan Tiger MPX Motherboard 1-4 GB Memory 1 Western Digital 20GB Hard disk 1 Fast Ethernet NIC 1 Wulfkit3 SCI Software Linux 2.4.x Debian 3.0 ScaMPI ATLAS ScaLAPACK PGI Compiler suite Facts Igor Monastyrnyi

  5. Technical characteristics • 3 dimensional torus organized as a 456 grid • Bandwidth 667 Mbytes/s • Peak perfomance of 800 Gflops/s • Floating poin perfomance 3334 Gflops/s • Application level latency of 1.46 s Igor Monastyrnyi

  6. Applications • Molecular dynamics simulations • Theoretical studies of the structure and function of metal proteins • Virtual Radiography • Real Time Visualization of Motion Igor Monastyrnyi

  7. Links • Dolphin Interconnect solutions • www.dolphinics.com • Scali A/S • www.scali.com • Wulfkit • www.wulfkit.com • Debian • www.debian.org Igor Monastyrnyi

  8. ScaMPI – High Perfomance MPI • High optimised implementation • Multi-Thread-Safe and Hot • Fault Tolerance • Automatic selection of physical transport mechnism • MIMD Support • Heterogeneous Clusters • Exact Message Size Option Igor Monastyrnyi

  9. SCI - Scalable Coherent Interface • High-perfomance bus • Extremely high speed • Point-to-Point packet link protocol Igor Monastyrnyi

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