UT HPC Windows Cluster Update

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posted Friday, February 16, 2007 7:55 PM by dongarra | 1 Comments

 Since April of 2006, the cluster has been fully operational on-site at UT in the Innovative Computing Laboratory. Running genuine Windows software, this cluster continues to be used for significant testing and development of multiple HPC tools described in the following sections. Specifications for the cluster in its current state are as follows:

 

Operating System:

 

¨ Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition

¨ Microsoft Compute Cluster Edition 2003

 

Hardware:

 

¨ 24 Custom Built Nodes from TeamHPC

¨ Dual socket AMD Opteron 265 (Dual Core) 1.8GHz Processors (total of 96 processors)

¨ 4GB Ram / node

¨ 80GB SATA Hard Drive / node

¨ Nforce Gigabit NIC

¨ Silverstorm 10Gb/s Infiniband & NICs

¨ Mellanox 20Gb/s DDR Infiniband & NICs installed (drivers currently don’t support dual cards) as well as a Myricom 10G 16 port switch & NICs.

 

Software (vendor):

 

¨ Visual Studio 2005

¨ Intel C++ Compiler 9.1

¨ Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1

¨ Intel MKL 8.1

¨ ACML 3.6.0

Software (development native windows):

¨ LAPACK (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack)

¨ FT-MPI (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/ftmpi)

¨ Open MPI (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/openmpi)

¨ PAPI (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi)

 

Software (development under cygwin):

¨ ScaLAPACK (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/scalapack)

¨ NetSolve/GridSolve (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/gridsolve)

¨ HPCC (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc)

 

Software (future development):

¨ KOJAK (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/kojak)

¨ LFC (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/lfc)

¨ HPL (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpl)

¨ SANS (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/sans)

¨ ATLAS (https://icl.cs.utk.edu/atlas)