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
16 Server High Performance Computing ClusterSpecifications
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
Storage and High Performance ComputingSpecifications
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
GPU High Performance ComputingSpecifications
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
GPU High Performance ComputingSpecifications
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
GPU High Performance ComputingSpecifications
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.
Workstations
4 Developer Work StationsSpecifications
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