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Lonestar : World-Class HPC System

Lonestar : World-Class HPC System. Lonestar is the one of the most powerful supercomputing systems for academic research in the US/world Key specs 1460 Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade servers 2920 Intel Xeon dual-core processors / 5840 cores at 2.66 GHz Cisco InfiniBand interconnect

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Lonestar : World-Class HPC System

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  1. Lonestar: World-Class HPC System Lonestar is the one of the most powerful supercomputing systems for academic research in the US/world • Key specs • 1460 Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade servers • 2920 Intel Xeon dual-core processors / 5840 cores at 2.66 GHz • Cisco InfiniBand interconnect • Performance/capabilities • 62 teraflops peak performance • 11 TB total memory • 100 TB disk in parallel file system • 10 gigabit/sec bandwidth, < 5 sec latency Lonestar is available nationally via the NSF TeraGrid.

  2. Ranger • Compute power - 579 Teraflops • 3,936 Sun four-socket blades • 15,744 AMD Opteron “Barcelona” processors • Quad-core (62,976 cores), 2.3 GHz, four flops/cycle • Memory - 123 Terabytes • 2 GB/core, 32 GB/node • 132 GB/s aggregate bandwidth • Disk subsystem - 1.7 Petabytes • 72 Sun x4500 “Thumper” I/O servers, 24TB each • ~72 GB/sec total aggregate bandwidth • 1 PB in largest /work filesystem • Interconnect • Sun InfiniBand-based switches (2) with 3456 ports each • Full non-blocking 7-stage Clos fabric • Mellanox ConnectX IB cards

  3. “Spur” • Sun Fire X4600 server with: • 8 dual-core CPUs (16 cores total) • 256GB of RAM • 4 NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 GPUs; • 7 Sun X4400 servers, each with: • 4 quad-core CPUs (16 cores total) • 128GB of RAM • 4 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 GPUs • Total system capability: 128 cores, 1TB aggregate memory, 32 GPUs.

  4. Scientific Computing Classes • Comprehensive four-course curriculum: • Introduction to Scientific/Technical Computing • Parallel Computing for Science & Engineering • Visualization & Data Analysis for Science & Engineering • Distributed & Grid Computing for Science & Engineering • Classes teach applied use of advanced computing technologies and techniques • Materials (slides, programming assignments, tests) available for download, use

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