HPC/Carbon Cluster - Overview

Carbon Cluster User Information

Primary Usage

• Modeling and Simulation
  • CNM Theory and Modeling group
  • CNM User Community
• Real-time on-demand data processing
  • Nanoprobe Beamline
  • E-beam lithography control
  • Other high-data intensive instruments

Hardware

• 350 compute nodes, 8 cores/node (Xeon 2.5-2.7 GHz)
• total: 2800 cores, 7 TB RAM, 40 TB disk
• Infiniband interconnect
• 40 TB shared storage
• Performance 28 TFLOPS (aggregrate)
• More details on a separate page

Software

• Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/CentOS 5
• Moab Cluster Suite
• GNU and Intel compilers

Vendors

• TeamHPC
• Redhat
• Intel