CIBM Cluster Summary

The CIBM cluster has 168 cores, 5376 GPU cores, 624GB RAM, 36GB GPU RAM, 10TB disk space, and a combined processing power of 6.6 Tera FLOPs in double precision and 13.2 Tera FLOPs in single precision!

darwin

Darwin

16 Server High Performance Computing Cluster

Specifications

16 Dell PowerEdge III servers, each;
  • Dual Xeon 5550 2.67 GHz (8 cores each machine - 128 cores total)
  • 32 Gb RAM (512 Gb RAM total)
  • 42 Gb Local Hard Disk (672 Gb total)

Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)

Commissioned

December 2007

Name Significance

Darwin is named in honor of Sir Charles Darwin, naturalist.

galton

Galton

Storage and High Performance Computing

Specifications

Dell PowerEdge server with PowerVault RAID array;
  • Dual Xeon 5520 2.3 GHz (16 cores)
  • 64 Gb RAM
  • 10 Tb RAID Disk Array

Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)

Commissioned

May 2008

Name Significance

Galton is named in honor of Sir Francis Galton, naturalist and half cousin to Darwin.

fisher

Fisher

GPU High Performance Computing

Specifications

Xenon Nitro T5 Supermicro server;
  • Dual Xeon 5520 2.3 GHz (16 cores)
  • 48Gb RAM
  • 4x NVIDIA Tesla C2050 "Fermi" GPU cards (1792 GPU Cores and 12 Gb RAM total)
  • 800Gb Local Hard Disk

Operating System

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Linux Server (Lucid Lynx)

Commissioned

January 2010

Name Significance

Fisher is named in honor of Sir Ronald Fisher, naturalist.

mendel

Mendel

GPU High Performance Computing

Specifications

Xenon Nitro T5 Supermicro server;
  • Dual Xeon 5620 2.4GHz (16 cores)
  • 48Gb RAM
  • 4x NVIDIA Tesla C2050 "Fermi" GPU cards (1792 GPU Cores and 12 Gb RAM total)
  • 800Gb Local Hard Disk

Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)

Commissioned

June 2010

Name Significance

Mendel is named in honor of Gregor Mendel, father of genetics.

koltsov

Koltsov

GPU High Performance Computing

Specifications

Xenon Nitro T5 Supermicro server;
  • Dual Xeon 5620 2.4GHz (16 cores)
  • 48Gb RAM
  • 4x NVIDIA Tesla C2050 "Fermi" GPU cards (1792 GPU Cores and 12 Gb RAM total)
  • 800Gb Local Hard Disk

Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)

Commissioned

June 2010

Name Significance

Koltsov is named in honor of Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov, genicist and molecular biologist whose ideas anticipated Watson & Crick in describing the DNA structure.

workstn

Workstations

4 Developer Work Stations

Specifications

Xenon Server;
  • Xeon 5640 2.67GHz (3 Single/8 cores - 1 Dual/16 cores)
  • 32Gb RAM
  • 1x NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU cards (240 GPU Cores and 4 Gb RAM each)
  • 800Gb Local Hard Disk

Operating System

  • 2 Running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Linux Desktop (Lucid Lynx)
  • 2 Running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

Commissioned

June 2010