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DANSE Resource – foxtrot – Technical Summary

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The foxtrot Penguin Altus 1702 dual Istanbul compute node cluster provides computing capabilities and an environment specifically configured to meet the production needs of applications from Caltech’s DANSE VNF lab, simulating neutron scattering experiments.

Technical Summary:

Architecture
  • Opteron Linux Server
Head Node
  • Dual AMD Opeteron 2435, 2.6GHz, Six Core, 6×512KB L2, 6MB L3 Cache; 64 GB DDR2-667MHz ECC RAM (16×4GB)
Compute Cluster
  • 13  @ 2x Dual, AMD Opeteron 2431, 2.4GHz, Six Core, 6×512KB L2 6MB Le Cache; 2×32GB DDR2-667 ECC RAM (16×4GB)
  • 4 @ 2x Dual, AMD Opeteron 2431, 2.4GHz, Six Core, 6×512KB L2, 6MB L3 Cache; 2x 64GB DDR2-667 ECC RAM (32×4GB)
Network Interconnect
  • QDR InfiniBand
  • Gigabit Ethernet
Disk
  • 250 GB SATA local scratch per compute  node
  • 1 TB home, system dirs
Operating System
  • Red Hat Linux
Compilers
  • GNU, g95
MPI
  • MPICH, openmpi