The latest addition to the ICTS HPC facility is the 512-cores Dell cluster. This cluster is composed of 33 nodes, installed in the ICTS data center. Of the thirty-three, one head node and all others are execution nodes. This is a homogeneous cluster with each node consisting of 32 processing cores with hyperthreading enabled. The cluster nodes are connected using 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Hardware Overview:
The cluster has 32 nodes and the hardware configuration for each node is as follows:-
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Compute Nodes:
- Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v4, 2 processors (8 cores each) operating at 2.1 GHz clock speed
- 64 GB Main Memory DDR4 ECC SDRAM
- 1000GB SATA 6Gbps HDD for OS and system software
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Master Node:
- Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v4, 2 processors (8 cores each) operating at 2.1 GHz clock speed
- 256 GB Main Memory DDR4 ECC SDRAM
- 2 x 400 Gb Enterprise SSD for OS and system software
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Storages:
- Network Attached Storage of 150 TB capacity usable after the RAID
- Archiving Storage: Network Attached Storage of 200 TB capacity usable after the RAID
Software Architecture:
Cluster Software stack model (click to enlarge):
Operating system
Each computing and master node runs the CentOS Linux operating system, version 7 and you’ll have to interface with them by using the command line.
Thus, you are more than encouraged to become familiar – if not yet – with Linux commands. We can recommend the following sites and resources: