CCAST Cluster 3

CCAST provides large-scale, state-of-the-art computing resources to the users:

The cluster3 consists of 128x compute nodes and 1x login node. The total aggregated theroretical peak performance is ~ 10.9TFLOPS. The aggregated memory and aggregated local storage are ~ 6.1TB and ~ 20.5TB, respectively. Each node is interconnected via both ultra-low latency high-speed Myri-10G and Gigabit Ethernet. The system details are shown below:

Compute node:  dual-socket Intel X5550 2.67GHz with 48GB ECC DDR3 1333MHz (8GB DIMMs), 160GB 7.2K RPM SATA HDD, 1x Myri-10G port, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Login node: dual-socket Intel X5550 2.67GHz with 48GB ECC DDR3 1333MHz (8GB DIMMs), 160GB 7.2K RPM SATA HDD, 1x Myri-10G port, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Processor: quad-core Intel X5550 @ 2.67GHz.

Number of Compute node: 128

Number of Processor core: 1024

Number of Login node: 1

Global scratch storage system: IBM GPFS

Global scratch storage maximum bandwidth: 5.0GB/s

Interconnection: Myri-10G, Gigabit Ethernet

Network switch:  Myri-10G, Cisco 3750G.