High Performance and Clustered Computing Resources
The College of Computing has over 400 remotely accessible high-performance and clustered computing nodes located in multiple machine rooms and research labs for the purpose of performing computational research and instructional work. Most of these high-performance computational clusters have been purchased by faculty for specific research needs. Access to these resources require faculty approval which can be requested by sending a request to helpdesk@cc.gatech.edu. The TSO Research Program Support Group is responsible for the coordination of infrastructure and services with regard to these clusters. The TSO Enterprise Systems Support Group is responsible for the coordination of infrastructure and services with regard to instructional clusters. The following table lists these computational resources and their primary uses. Please observe appropriate research group conventions for the machines. If you don't know then ask someone in the research group.
High Performance and Clustered Computing (HPC) Resources
| CLUSTER NAME | NODES | CORES | DESCRIPTION | OPERATING SYSTEM |
RESEARCH GROUP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awing | 14 | 28 |
IBM BladeCenter (2 x 2.8 GHz Pentium4 Xeon) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 |
CERCS |
| CellBuzz |
20 |
360 (threads) |
IBM BladeCenter (14 Blades with 2 x 3.2 GHz QS20 CellBE) IBM BladeCenter (6 Blades w/2 x n.n GHz QS22 PowerXCell 8i) |
Fedora Core 7, SDK 3.0 Fedora Core 9, SDK 3.1 |
CSE |
| Factor |
9 |
72 |
Dell PowerEdge R610 (2 x quad-core n.n GHz Intel Xeon X5570) 48 GB RAM, 7TB of storage ) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
non-Research, Instructional HPC Resource |
| Hogwarts | 6 | 48 |
Dell PowerEdge R710 (2 x quad-core 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon X5550, 48 GB RAM, 12TB of storage) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
non-Research, Instructional HPC Resource |
| iLab (IXP) | 8 | 16 |
Dell PowerEdge 2650 (2 x 2.8 GHz Pentium4 Xeon) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 |
CERCS |
| Jazz |
4 |
32 |
IBM System x3755 (4 x dual-core 2.4 GHz AMD Opteron Model 8216, 8 GB RAM, ) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
non-Research, Instructional HPC Resource |
| Loki | 12 | 24 |
Dell PowerEdge 1850 (2 x 3.0 GHz Pentium4 Xeon) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
DiSL |
| Maquis |
16 |
128 |
IBM BladeCenter H (16 blades x 2 sockets x Core2 Quad) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
CERCS |
| Netlab | 62 | 124 |
Sun Fire v60x (2 x n.n GHz Pentium4 Xeon) |
(mixed Linux flavors) |
CERCS |
| Pasta |
25 |
200 |
Dell PowerEdge 1950 III (2 x 3GHz Core2 Quad) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
Computer Architecture |
| Polynesia/Samoa | 18 | 72 |
Dell PowerEdge 1950 (2 x 2.8 GHz Dual-core Xeon) (2 x 2.66GHz Dual-core Xeon) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
CERCS |
| Rohan | 53 | 106 |
Dell PowerEdge 1850s (2 x 3.2 GHz Pentium4 Xeon EMT64) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
CERCS |
| Sith | 40 | 80 |
HP Integrity (2 x 900 MHz Itanium 2 IA-64) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 |
CERCS |
| Sunbuzz |
4 |
36 (192 threads) |
2 Sun Fire T2000 (1 x 1GHz UltraSPARC T1, 16 GB RAM) 2 Sun Fire T5120 (1x 1.167 GHZ UltraSPARC T2, 32 GB RAM) |
Solaris 10 |
CSE |
| Sushi | 20 | 88 |
20 Intel Servers (2 x 3.2 GHz Pentium4 Xeon) 12 Dell PowerEdge 1950 (2 x 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 |
Computer Architecture |
| Topaz |
36 |
288 |
TeamHPC (2 sockets x 2.66GHz Xeon Quad) |
CentOS |
CSE |
| Vogue | 11 | 88 | 7 Penguin Computing Relion 1700 (2x Intel E5506, 12GB RAM) 4 Dell PowerEdge R610 (2 x Intel E5550, 12GB RAM) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
CERCS |
| Warp |
56 | 112 |
Intel BladeServer (2 x n.n GHz Pentium 4 Xeon) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
CERCS |
| Wilks | 10 | 20 |
Dell PowerEdge 1855 (2 x 3.0 GHz Intel EMT64) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 |
Computational Perception |
| TOTAL |
424 |
1922 |