Significant HPC System Upgrade from Sun Microsystems, Inc.:
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 6250's each with 2 quad-core Intel low wattage CPU's 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 500% increase in teraflops, 200% increase in RAM and 200% increase in interconnect bandwidth. Electrical power and cooling requirements have been minimized by choosing Intel's Xeon L5420 lower wattage CPU's giving us a much "greener" system (about 275 GFlops per kW of electric power).
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 E6900's 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, the entire 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.
SAE 2008
Thank you for joining us at the SAE World Congress in Detroit! Click here for our CU-CCMS flyer in case you missed our presentation.
For more information about our SAE activities, please contact Casandra Gibson at casandg@clemson.edu or (864) 283-7300.