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Systems
 | Here is a detailed description of HPC systems available under the LinkSCEEM-2 & CyTera projects. |
Biblioteca Alexandrina, Egypt
BA, Sun Microsystems cluster
Technical description
| Peak/Sustained Performance | 11.8 TFlops / 9.1 TFlops (LINPACK) |
| Number of Nodes | 130 eight-core compute nodes |
| Processors/node | 2 quad-core sockets per node, each is Intel Quad Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz |
| Memory/node | 8 GB memory per node, Total memory 1.05 TBytes (132 * 8GB) |
| Disk storage | 36 TB shared scratch (lustre) |
| Other storage | Other, Storage: Tape library for backup (StorageTek SL48 Tape Library) w. backup software: Veritas NetBackup (by Symantec) |
| Node-node interconnect | DDR Infiniband @ 10 GBbps network for MPI DDR Infiniband @ 10 GBbps network for I/O to the global Lustre filesystems |
| accelerators | N/A |
| pre- and post processing nodes | 6 management nodes, incl. two batch nodes for job submission w. 64GB RAM |
| OS info | OS, Compute Node: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) OS, Front End & Service Nodes: RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) |
| Further information | http://www.bibalex.org/ISIS/Frontend/Projects/ProjectDetails.aspx th=a7Pg5AcpjauIQ1/Xoqw2GA==&id=m8fC7jXMTFprEy98pIPBFw== |
Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
CyI/Cy-Tera, IBM Hybrid CPU/GPU cluster
Technical description
| Peak/Sustained Performance | ~35 TFlop/s |
| Number of Nodes | 98 twelve-core compute nodes Unaccelerated 18 twelve-core compute nodes, each with dual NVidia M2070 GPUs |
| Processors/node | 2 hexa-core sockets per node, each is Intel Westmere |
| Memory/node | 48 GB memory per node Total memory 4.7 TBytes |
| Disk storage | 350 TB GPFS raw |
| Other storage | N/A |
| Node-node interconnect | 4x QDR Infiniband network for MPI 4x QDR Infiniband network for I/O to the global GPFS filesystem |
| accelerators | GPUs available |
| pre- and post processing nodes | N/A |
| OS info | OS, Compute Node: RHEL OS, Front End & Service Nodes: RHEL |
| Further information | Machine availability tentatively scheduled for 7th March 2012 |
CyI/euclid, IBM Hybrid CPU/GPU cluster
Technical description
| Peak/Sustained Performance | ~1 TFlop/s |
| Number of Nodes | 12 eight-core compute nodes (4 * x3550, 8 * x3650M2) |
| Processors/node | 2 quad-core sockets per node, each is Intel Quad Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz |
| Memory/node | 16 GB memory per node Total memory .192 TBytes |
| Disk storage | 10 TB shared scratch (lustre) - not backed up |
| Other storage | N/A |
| Node-node interconnect | 4x QDR Infiniband network for MPI 4x QDR Infiniband network for I/O to the global Lustre filesystems |
| accelerators | GPUs available on 8 nodes under queue qpuq |
| pre- and post processing nodes | N/A |
| OS info | OS, Compute Node: CentOS release 5.3 OS, Front End & Service Nodes: CentOS release 5.3 |
| Further information | Machine planned to be decommissioned by 10th February 2012 |
NARSS, Egypt
NARSS, Blue Gene/L
Technical description
| Peak/Sustained Performance | 5.73 TFlops per rack |
| Number of Nodes | 1024 dual processor compute nodes |
| Processors/node | 2 sockets per node, each Processor is a PowerPC 440 700MHz |
| Memory/node | 512MB SDRAM-DDR memory per node Total memory .5 TBytes (1024 * .5GB) |
| Disk storage | 36 TB shared scratch (GPFS) |
| Other storage | Other, Storage: Tape library for backup (StorageTek SL48 Tape Library) w. backup software: Veritas NetBackup (by Symantec) |
| Node-node interconnect | 3D toroidal network for peer-to-peer communication |
| accelerators | N/A |
| graphical pre- and post processing nodes | N/A |
| OS info | OS, Compute Node: Lightweight kernel, I/O Node – Embedded Linux OS, Front End & Service Nodes: SuSE SLES 9 Linux |
| Further information | http://www.narss.sci.eg/Capabilities.aspx#Capability45 |
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