HPC/Hardware Details

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Carbon Cluster
User Information


User nodes

1U Twin node chassis (Supermicro).
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Features Count Processor Cores Clock
(GHz)
Memory
(GB)
Memory/core
(GB)
login1 1 Xeon X5355 8 2.67 16 2
login5/login6 2 Xeon E5540 8 2.53 24 3
gen1 144 Xeon X5355 8 2.67 16 2
gen2 bigmem 38 Xeon E5540 8 2.53 48 6
gen2 166 Xeon E5540 8 2.53 24 3

Infrastructure nodes

  • 2 management nodes
  • 2 lustre OSS
  • 2 lustre MDS
  • dual socket, quad core (Intel Xeon E5345, 2.33 GHz)
  • pairwise failover

Storage

  • NexSAN SATAbeast
  • 30 TB raw RAID-5, 22 TB effective
  • Lustre parallel file system
  • 160 GB local disk per compute node
  • 2 × 250 GB local disk in frontend nodes, as RAID1
  • NFS
    • highly-available server based on DRBD
    • used for cluster management
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Interconnect

  • Infiniband 4x DDR (Mellanox, onboard ) – MPI and Lustre
  • Ethernet 1 GB/s – node access and management
  • Ethernet 10 Gb/s – crosslinks and uplink
  • FibreChannel – storage backends

Power

  • UPS (2) – carries infrastructure nodes and network switches
  • PDUs – switched and metered
  • Power consumption
    • peak: 89 kW
    • full load (average): 55 kW