High Performance Computing Hardware with ISFS:

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High Performance Computing Hardware with ISFS
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Josephine Palencia John E. Dorband
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Hardware Design Summary

• Computing Environment
• Twin clusters FIREANT! Rockymount
• 2 development nodes,
• 16 compute nodes,
• 1 storage node
• Processor 16-node, 32 1.4Ghz AMD Opteron 240DP
• Speeds 2.8 Gflop double, 5.6 Gflop single peak
• Memory 16 GB SDRAM
• Diskspace 120 GB local/execute node ,
• 1.44 TBytes raided storage node
• Network Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000

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Design Details

• Motherboard Tyan Thunder K8S (S2880GNR)
• Processor AMD Opteron 240 DP 1.4Ghz 1MB L2
  cache
• Memory Kingston 1GB 333MHz DDR PC2700 Reg
  ECC DIMM
• Harddrive Seagate 120GB Speed 7200rpm 8.5 ms
  seek time
• Monitor SAMSUNG Syncmaster 240T, 24IN LCD,
  1920X1200 60HZ
• Graphics Card MSI FX5600-VTDR128 (MS-8912)
  128MB, GeForceFX nVIDIA
• Raid Card Controller 3WARE Escalade 7506-12, 12
  channel Ultra ATA, DiskSwitch
• DVDRW Drive TDK IndiDVD 440N black 4x2x12 Int
  IDE DVDR/-R/RW/-RW
• Floppy drive Samsung 1.44mb 3.5" floppy Black
• KeyboardMouse Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical PS/2
  and USB. Black
• Dell
  keyboard PS/2 and USB 104keys Black
• PC Case Thermaltake XASER III V2420A ( SILVER )
  12-Bay All Aluminum ATX
• Super Tower
  Chassis w/ Large Side Window Locks, 7 fans

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Design Details (cont)

• Node Chassis AIC RMC1D2-6I-DK8, 1U Rack Mount
  Chassis / 400W ATX/EPS PS
• Heavy-duty cold-rolled steel, 19"(W) x 27"(D) x
  1.75"(H), 8 x 40mm fans,
• 1 x PCI slot via riser card, 1 x slim CD 4 x
  hot-swap
• Bays for 1" PATA, SCSI, or SATA HDD's with CPU
  cooler passive Dynatron DYHS-OPT1 Copper C1020
  Dimension 100x74x24 mm
• Storage Chassis AIC RMC4D-IDE
• 16x hot-swap drive bays for IDE or 15x hot-swap
  drive bays for SCA plus 2x5.25" . 1 x 5.25" slim
  CD-ROM 1 x 3.5" slim FDD bays
• Chassis Cabinet AIC Rack 36U Dimensions 23.5"
  x 73" x 68 (WxDxH)
• Gigabit switches DGS-1024T Unmanaged 24-Port
  10/100/1000BASE-T
• Gigabit cable Tripp Lite 10ft cable category
  cat6 gigabit patch snagless blue

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Motherboard Tyan Thunder K8S

• Supports up to 2 AMD Opteron processors
• AMD Hypertransport PCI-X and I/O Hub
• 6 184-pin 2.5v DDR Dimm sockets up to 12Gb of
  registered DDR
• 2 Broadcom BCM5704C dual-channel GbE LAN
  controllers
• Integrated ATI Rage XL 8mb PIC graphics controller

• Integrated Promise SATA Raid controller
  (optional)
• Integrated Dual channel SCSI controller (optional)

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Processor AMD Opteron 240DP

• Enables simultaneuous 32bit and 64 bit computing
• 200series (1-2way) across entire data using same
  hardware and software
• Supports up 2 3 coherent hypertransport links of
  up to 19.2Gb/s peak bandwidth
• Integrated memory controller reduces latencies
  during SMP memory access
• 256Tb of memory address space

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FIREANT! ROCKMOUNT Chassis

• AIC RMC1D2-6I-DK8, 1U Rack Mount Chassis with
  400W ATX/EPS PS
• Heavy-duty cold-rolled steel, 19"(W) x 27"(D) x
  1.75"(H), 8 x 40mm fans, 1xPCI slot via riser
  card, 4x hot-swap bays for 1" PATA, SCSI, or
  SATA HDD's CPU cooler passive Dynatron
  DYHS-OPT1 Copper C1020 Dim 100x74x24 mm 1 pair
  of slid rails/chassis

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Storage Chassis

• AIC RMC4D-IDE
• 16x hot-swap drive bays for IDE or 15x hot-swap
  drive bays for SCA plus 2x5.25" . 1 x 5.25" slim
  CD-ROM

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FIREANT! ROCKMOUNT Cabinet

• AIC Rack 36U
• Locking glass windowed front door (vented)
• 1 pair of adjustable recessed slide rails
• Dimensions 23.5" x 73" x 68" (WxDxH)