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High Performance Computing at NJIT


Last modified: 24 May 2011 08:00

HPC Machine Specifications
Cappl Hydra Hydra Expansion Kong Kong Expansion Phi Gorgon
Name cappl.njit.edu hydra.njit.edu hydra.njit.edu kong.njit.edu kong.njit.edu Phi
.njit.edu
Gorgon
.njit.edu
Mfg Dell Microway Microway Sun Sun Sun Microway
OS RHEL Linux 4.2 kernel 2.6.9 RHEL Linux 4.2 kernel 2.6.9 RHEL Linux 4.2 kernel 2.6.9 RHEL Linux 4.2 kernel 2.6.9 RHEL Linux 4.2 kernel 2.6.9 SL5 SL5
Max GFLOPS ? 600 ? 800 ?    
Number compute nodes 16 66 10 112 11 1 1
Processors per node 2 2 2 (dual core) 1 (dual core) 2 (dual core) 1 (4 cores) 4 (32 cores)
Processor type Intel Xeon AMD Opteron Model 250 AMD Opteron Model 280 AMD Opteron Model 180 AMD Opteron Model 2218 AMD Opteron Model 8384 AMD Opteron Model 6134
Processor speed. GHz 2.8 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.6 2.7 0.8
64-bit No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAM per node, GB 2 4 16 2 16 32 64
RAM per processor, GB 1 2 8 2 8 32 16
RAM per core, GB 1 2 4 1 4 8 2
Disk per compute node, GB 80 40 80 80 140    
Compute node local disk used for AFS cache, /scratch (68GB), swap AFS cache, /scratch (30GB), swap AFS cache, /scratch (67GB), swap AFS cache, /scratch (69GB), swap AFS cache, /scratch (130GB), swap AFS cache, /scratch (148GB) AFS cache, /scratch (917GB)
External scratch - - - - /bscratch, 5TB - -
Node interconnect Gigabit Ethernet Myrinet Myrinet Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet N/A N/A
Scheduler SunGridEngine 6.1 SunGridEngine 6.1 SunGridEngine 6.1 SunGridEngine 6.1 SunGridEngine 6.1 N/A N/A
Cluster mgmt Warewulf Warewulf Warewulf Warewulf Warewulf N/A N/A
General-access No No No Partial No Yes No
Head node AFS client Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A N/A
Compute nodes AFS client Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A N/A
In-service date Feb 2006 Jun 2006 Aug 2008 Apr 2007 Nov 2008 Oct 2010 Aug 2010
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