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CRAY XE6 Hardware and Architecture

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Hardware of Installation step 1

Summary

  • 3552 compute nodes / 113.664 cores
    • dual socket G34
      • 2x AMD Opteron(tm) 6200 Series Processor (Interlagos) with 16 Cores @ 2.3 GHz
      • 32MB L2+L3 Cache, 16MB L3 Cache
      • HyperTransport HT3, 6.4GT/s=102.4 GB/s
      • per socket ~150 GFLOP/s
    • 32GB memory and 64GB memory nodes
  • 96 service nodes (Network nodes, mom nodes, router nodes, DVS nodes, boot, database, syslog)
  • High Speed Network CRAY Gemini
  • Parallel Filesystem (workspace)
    • Lustre
    • capacity 2.7 PB realized with 16 DDN SFA10K controllers
    • IO bandwith ~150GB/s
  • infrastructure servers
  • Users HOME filesystem ~60TB (BLUEARC mercury 55)
  • special user nodes:
    • external login servers
    • pre-post processing nodes with 1TB memory and 128GB memory and local disk (totally 20TB).
    • remote visualization nodes

Architecture

  • System Management Workstation (SMW)
    • system administrator's console for managing a Cray system like monitoring, installing/upgrading software, controls the hardware, starting and stopping the XE6 system.
  • service nodes are classified in:
    • login nodes for users to access the system
    • boot nodes which provides the OS for all other nodes, licenses,...
    • network nodes which provides e.g. external network connections for the compute nodes
    • Cray Data Virtualization Service (DVS): is an I/O forwarding service that can parallelize the I/O transactions of an underlying POSIX-compliant file system.
    • sdb node for services like ALPS, torque, moab, cray management services,...
    • I/O nodes for e.g. lustre
    • MOM (torque) nodes for placing user jobs of the batch system in to execution
  • compute nodes and pre-post processing nodes


Conceptual Architecture

Conceptual Architecture of Hermit.jpg

AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processor (Interlagos)

Interlagos.jpg

AMD Turbo Core technology

AMD Turbo Core technology.jpg

Storage Solution for Hermit installation step 1

Hermit1 storage solution.jpg


Software Features

  • Cray Linux Environment (CLE) 4.? operating system
  • Operating System is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
  • Cray Gemini interconnection network
  • Cluster Compatibility Mode (CCM) functionality enables cluster-based independent software vendor (ISV) applications to run without modification on Cray systems.
  • Batch System: torque, moab
  • many development tools available:

Pictures of installation step 0

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