Shared Computation Servers and Cluster

Introduction

Our shared computation and cluster system used by our department.

Hardware

File/Authentication Server

• 1 Apple Xserve (running Server)
  
  Specs:
  • 2 x 1000 MHz CPU
  • 2 GB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
  • 2 x 256 Kb L2 Cache
  • 2 x 2 Mb L3 Cache
  • 3 X 60 GB HD
  • 100 Mbit Fast Ethernet, full duplexing network connection

Computing Nodes

• 2 XServ (running )
  
  Specs:
  • 2 x 1 GHz CPU
  • 2 GB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
  • 2 x 256 Kb L2 Cache
  • 2 x 2 Mb L3 Cache
  • 133 MHz Bus
  • 1 x 60 GB HD
  • 100 Mbit Fast Ethernet, full duplexing network connection

Switch

• Cisco 2948 - 48 port, 100 Mbit, full duplexing switch

Software

• High Performance Computing
• LAM/MPI 7.0.6  http://www.lam-mpi.org
•  http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html

• Statistical
• R 2.0  http://cran.r-project.org
• RMPI 0.4-8  http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi

• Libraries
• Atlas, Blas, Lapack, Blacs, Scalapack  http://www.netlib.org
• SPRNG  http://sprng.cs.fsu.edu
• GNU Scientific Library (GSL) http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

• Compilers / Optimizers
• GCC, G77  http://www.gnu.org

Benchmarks

• High Performance Computing on OS X

Project using the shared system

• High Performance Computing on OS X