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IA-64 Linux Cluster User Guide

SDSC's IA-64 Linux Cluster consists of 262 IBM cluster nodes, each with dual 1.5 GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, for a peak performance of 3.1 teraflops. The nodes are equipped with four gigabytes (GBs) of physical memory per node. The cluster is running SuSE Linux and is using Myricom's Myrinet cluster interconnect network.

Technical Summary

IA-64 Linux Cluster (tg-login.sdsc.teragrid.org)

COMPONENT DESCRIPTION
Architecture Linux Cluster
Access Nodes
  • quad-processor
  • ECC SDRAM memory: 8 GB
  • 2 nodes (8 processors)
Compute Nodes
  • dual-processor
  • ECC SDRAM memory: 4 GB
  • 262 nodes (524 processors)
Processor
  • Intel® Itanium® 2, 1.5 GHz
  • Integrated 6 MB L3 cache
  • Peak performance 3.1 Tflops
Network Interconnect Myrinet 2000, Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel
Disk 1.7 TB of NFS, 50 TB of GPFS (Parallel File System)
Operating System Linux 2.4-SMP (SuSE SLES 8.0)
Compilers
  • Intel: Fortran77/90/95 C C++
  • GNU: Fortran77 C C++
Batch System Portable Batch System (PBS) with Catalina Scheduler
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