HPC2N - Resources: Hardware

 


Software

Computing resources


Name Abisko Akka Ritsem
Type Cluster Cluster Cluster
Usage SNIC SNIC LHC, Swegrid
Nodes/Cores 318/15264 (10 fat, 308 thin) 672/5376 68/544
CPU 4 x AMD Opteron 6238 (Interlagos) 12 core (2.6 GHz) 2 x Intel Xeon quad-core L5420 (2.5GHz) 2 x Intel Xeon quad-core E5430 (2.66GHz)
Memory 10 fat: 512 GB RAM/node, 308 thin: 128 GB RAM/node 16 GB RAM/node 16 GB RAM/node
Disk 500 GB/node 73GB/node  
Interconnect Infiniband, 40Gb/s, 4X QSFP Mellanox 10Gb/s, SDR 4X, latency: < 4 µs  

GigaBit Ethernet

Theoretical Performance (TFlops) 158.75 53.8 5.8
HP Linpack (TFlops) - 46.04 -
Top 500 - #39 (June 2008) -
In use since 2011 2008 2008
Named for Abisko National Park in northern Sweden, in the Swedish province of Lapland near the Norwegian border. Akka, a massif in the southwestern corner of Stora Sjöfallet National Park in northern Sweden. The location Ritsem, near the Stora Sjöfallet National Park in northern Sweden.
Comments     Ritsem is one of the SweGrid machines. On this machine, jobs can only be run over the grid - there is no local PBS job access.

GPGPU Computing Resources


Name Hamrinsberget
Type GPGPU
Usage Testing
Nodes/Cores 1/12
CPU 2 AMD six-core Opteron 8431 (2.4 GHz)
Memory 32 GB RAM/node
Disk 250 GB
GPU 1 nVidia GeForce 285 and 1 ATI Radeon HD 5800
In use since 2009
Named for A small mountain near Umeå University. 
Comments  

Storage resources


Name Bender Center wide storage WLCG storage
Type Tape storage Fast parallel file system WLCG storage
Usage     WLCG dCache Pools
Disk Six IBM Ultrium 4 tape drives capable of storing 800GB uncompressed data per tape at the transfer speed of 120MB/s 100 TB fast disk (IBM DS4800) 8 DL32S, each with 7 TB. 5 Sun X4540, each with 36 TB.
In use since 2008 2008 2007/2009
Comments IBM TS3500 tape library with IBM Ultrium4 tape drives. Uses IBM GPFS HPC2N is a Tier-1 node, providing storage and computing services for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG).