High Performance Computing Cluster resources (for use in grant applications)

1. Networks

All servers are connected to both the primary engineering network as well as a second private high speed network for improved performance of parallel jobs.

2. Servers

• A mix of i386(48 CPU), em64t(40 CPU) and amd64(78 CPU) processors servers provide 166 compute nodes
• Current systems are owned by the schools of EECS, Mechanical Engineering, College of Science and Nuclear Engineering Radiation Health Physics whose users enjoy high priority access to the systems they own and a lower priority access on the rest of the cluster nodes
• Parallel program execution is available via the MPI (message passing interface) Library – Argonne’s mpich2
• The server room is protected with both a UPS for short term power fluctuations and a diesel motor generator for long term power outages

3. Software

• All servers are running RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 in a Sun Grid Engine environment
• Fortran and C programs can be compiled to run parallel

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Date Created: Aug 14, 2007
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