Knot Cluster (knot)

Allowed Users

All

Usage

Highly Parallel

Specifications

Hewlett-Packard 84 MPI nodes (1,008 cores), 4 Fat memory nodes, 12 GPUs

Description

This is a campus-available cluster.  For assitance in using it, see the Associated Staff page for a local IT Staff member who can help you use it.

If you publish papers, or give talks, on research that used this system, please acknowledge the "Center for Scientific Computing at UCSB" and NSF Grant CNS-0960316, as it is these two organizations that made this system possible!

Technical Details

Knot consists a number of systems to serve different computational needs:

• 84 SL390 nodes of dual Intel X5650 six core processors, half with 24GB of RAM and half with 48GB and Infiniband Interconnect.
• Two DL580 nodes with 4 Intel X7550 eight core processors and 256GB of RAM.
• Two DL580 nodes with 4 Intel X7550 eight core processors and 512GB of RAM.
• 12 NVIDIA M2050 GPUs in SL390 nodes with X5650 six core processors
• 60 TB of usable high performance storage
• Login node
• Test node for debugging and development work

System is expected to be operational in April 2011