April 21, 2008
CU-CCMS and Sun Microsystems have significantly enhanced our compute grid portion of the HPC system. The new system is compromised of 430 Sun Blade 6250s each with 2 quad-core Intel low wattage CPUs and 32 GB of RAM. This is a total of 35 TFlops of compute-power and 14 TBytes of RAM with Voltaire DDR infiniband interconnect. The impressive compute grid upgrade gives us a 500 percent increase in teraflops, 200 percent increase in RAM and an additional 200 percent increase in interconnect bandwidth. Electrical power and cooling requirements have been minimized by choosing Intel’s Xeon L5420 lower wattage CPUs giving us a much “greener” system.
For a complete, balanced HPC system we have three enterprise class servers and storage capabilities. These include an E25K with 144 processing cores and 680 GB of RAM and 2 E6900s each with 48 processing cores and 384 GB of RAM. For storage we have 40 TBytes of disk space and a L700 back-up and archival system.
This system is owned and operated by CU-CCMS, and the Sun HPC system is dedicated for the exclusive use of the technical staff who are focused on delivering cost effective and fast turnaround-time solutions to clients within time and within budget.
