CHPC Computational Hardware

sanddunearch (156 nodes, 312 procs, 624 cores)

  • "parallel cluster" for highly parallel parallel jobs requiring high speed interconnect.
  • 2.4 GHz dual-core Opteron processors
  • 8 Gbytes memory per node (2 Gbytes per processor core)
  • Both Infiniband and Gigabit Ethernet interconnects
  • 156 nodes available to the general pool
  • Some restricted nodes:
sanddunearch restricted nodes
Research Groupproc speednode memorynode/procsfast interconnect
Molinero2.6 GHz8 Gbytes24/96infiniband
Schuster1.8 GHz2 Gbytes12/48infiniband

delicatearch (256 nodes, 512 procs)

  • "parallel cluster" for highly parallel parallel jobs requiring high speed interconnect.
  • 1.4 GHz Opteron processors
  • 2 Gbytes memory per node
  • Both Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet interconnects

tunnelarch (48 nodes, 96 procs)

  • "data mining cluster" for jobs requiring large memory.
  • 1.4 and 1.8 GHz Opteron processors
  • 4 Gbytes memory per node
  • Gigabit Ethernet interconnect

marchingmen (164 nodes, 328 procs)

  • "cycle farm" for serial and smaller parallel
  • jobs which do not require a high speed interconnect.
  • 1.4 and 1.8 GHz Opteron processors
  • 2 Gbytes memory per node
  • Gigabit Ethernet interconnect

landscapearch (restricted)

    Limited availability
landscapearch restricted nodes
Research Groupproc speednode memorynode/procsfast interconnect
Voth1.4 GHz2 Gbytes16/32no
2.2 GHz4 Gbytes14/28no
2.6 GHz4 Gbytes51/102myrinet
Violi1.4 GHz4 Gbytes9/18myrinet
Schuster1.8 GHz2 Gbytes64/128myrinet
Zhdanov1.8 GHz4 Gbytes4/8no
Simons2.0 GHz8 Gbytes6/24no
Horel/Steenburgh2.2 GHz8 Gbytes1/4no
Liu2.2 GHz8 Gbytes6/24no
Reichler2.2 GHz8 Gbytes4/16no
CHPC*2.4 GHz32 Gbytes1/4no

Telluride Cluster Overview (restricted)

  • For dedicated use by one research group
  • 72 nodes, 576 processors
  • 2.333 (48 nodes) and 2.66 (24 nodes) GHz processors
  • 16 Gbytes memory per node
  • Inifiniband interconnect