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Systems Information Big Red
Big Red is one of the most powerful university-owned computers in the US. Part of a comprehensive strategy to build an advanced cyberinfrastructure to support research at Indiana University, Big Red has a theoretical peak performance of more than 40 teraflops, and has achieved more than 21 teraflops on numerical computations.
Note: /N/gpfs will retire on 10/31/11.
System Specifications
| Primary Use | ||
| High performance parallel computing system. | ||
| Server Information | ||
| Architecture | IBM JS21 BladeCenter Cluster, PPC970MP | |
| TFLOPS | 40 theoretical (1024 nodes), benchmarked at 21 on numerical computations (768 nodes) |
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| Clock Speed |
2.5GHz | |
| Nodes | 1024 compute; 4 user; 16 storage (pSeries 505 nodes) | |
| CPUs | 2 x 2.5GHz dual-core PowerPC 970MP processors per compute node | |
| Memory Type | Distributed and Shared |
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| Total Memory | 8192 GB |
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| Memory per Node | 8 GB | |
| Current Rank in Top 500 | 452 | |
| Local Scratch Storage |
/scratch - 73GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) | |
| Further Details | ||
| OS | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 |
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| Network | 2 GB Myrinet and gigabit Ethernet | |
| Job Management Software | IBM's LoadLeveler and the Moab Workload Manager | |
| Batch Jobs per User | Fairshare with some restrictions | |
| Storage | Connected via DataDirect Network S2A9550 Storage Controllers each dual-pathed to 5 SAF 4248 Chassis | |
| Additional Scratch Storage | /N/gpfs/your_username (NOTE: /N/gpfs will be retired on 10/31/2011) /N/dc/scratch/your_username /N/dcwan/scratch/your_username |
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| Applications | List of packages |
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