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NEC Cluster Hardware and Architecture (laki + laki2)

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Hardware

  • 592 compute nodes (524 for laki and 68 for laki2) are of type NEC HPC-144 Rb-1 Server (see NEC Products)
    • dual CPU compute nodes: 2x Intel Xeon X5560 "Gainestown" (5000 Sequence specifications)
      • 4 cores, 8 threads
      • 2.80 GHz (3.20 Ghz max. Turbo frequency)
      • 8MB L3 Cache
      • 1333 MHz Memory Interface, 6.4 GT/s QPI
      • TDP 95W, 45nm technology
      • "Nehalem" microarchitecture
    • compute node RAM: triple-channel memory
      • standard: 12 GB RAM
      • 26 nodes upgraded to 24GB, 48GB or 144GB RAM
        • 2 nodes of 144GB Memory nodes have additional a 6TB local scratch disk installed
        • 2 nodes of 144GB Memory nodes have additional a 2TB local scratch disk installed
    • 20 compute nodes have additional Nvidia Tesla S1070 GPU's installed.
  • Pre- & Postprocessing node (smp node)
    • 8x Intel Xeon X7542 6-core CPUs with 2.67GHz (8*6=48 Cores)
    • 1TB RAM
    • shared access
  • Visualisation node
    • 4 nodes each with 8 cores Intel W3540 and 24GB memory
      • Nvidia Quadro FX5800
  • Node Upgrades (2012/2013)
    • 316 nodes Dual Intel 'Sandy Bridge' E5-2670 (192 for laki and 124 for laki2)
      • 2.6 Ghz, 8 Cores per processor, 16 Threads
      • 4 memory channels per processor, DDR3 1600Mhz memory
      • 12 nodes with 64GB RAM
      • 304 nodes with 32GB RAM
      • QDR Mellanox ConnectX-3 IB HCAs (40gbit)
  • Additional large memory nodes
    • 10 nodes Quad Socket AMD Opteron 6238
    • 2.6 Ghz, 12 cores per processor
    • 4 memory channels per processor, DDR3 1600Mhz memory
    • 256GB RAM
    • QDR Mellanox ConnectX-2 IB HCAs (40gbit)
    • 4 nodes have additional a 4TB local scratch disk



Architecture

The NEC Nehalem Cluster platform consists of several frontend nodes for interactive access (for access details see Access) and several compute nodes for execution of parallel programs.


Compute node CPU architecture types installed:

  • Intel Xeon 5560 (nehalem)
  • Nvidia Tesla S1070 (consisting of C1060 devices)


Features

  • Operating System: ScientificLinux 5.3 (internal test on Windows HPC Server 2008)
  • Batchsystem: Torque/Maui/Moab
  • node-node interconnect: Infiniband + GigE
  • Global Disk 60 TB (lustre)
  • OpenMPI
  • Compiler: Intel, GCC, Java


Short overview of installed nodes
Function Name CPU Sockets Cores Memory Disk PBS properties Interconnect
Compute Nodes n010501 - n143302 (700 nodes) Intel Xeon X5560 2.80 GHz 2 8 12 GB (default), 24 GB (8nodes), 48 GB (8nodes) - nehalem Infiniband
Compute Nodes with Tesla S1070 (32 nodes) Intel Xeon X5560 2.80 GHz + Tesla S1070 GPU 2 8 12 GB - tesla Infiniband
Login Node cl3fr1 / cl3fr2 Intel Xeon X5560 2.80 GHz 2 8 48 GB 150 GB mirror - 10GigE/Infiniband
I/O Server (2 lustre nodes) Intel Xeon E5405 2.0 GHz 8 GB 60 TB - Infiniband
Infrastructure (NTP,PBS,DNS,DHCP,FTP,NAT,NFS,Imager,...) 6 nodes - GigE