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COMPUTING SYSTEMS OVERVIEW

This table shows the systems and related resources at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility and the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).


Information about HEC Systems and Related Resources
  NAS NCCS
Systems

Pleiades

SGI ICE cluster

184 racks (11,776 nodes)

129,024 cores
1.79 petaflops, peak

1.24 petaflops LINPACK rating
237 terabytes of memory
Intel Xeon E5472 (Harpertown) processors (3 GHz); Intel Xeon X5570 (Nehalem) processors (2.93 GHz); Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmore) processors (2.93 GHz); and Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge) processors (2.6 GHz)

GPU/Westmere nodes:

64 nodes (1 GPU per node)

768 total cores (General Purpose Intel Xeon Westmere Cores)
32,768 total cores (GPU Streaming Cores)
43 teraflops, peak
3.148 terabytes of memory

 

Endeavour

2-node SGI UV 2000 system

1,536 cores
32 teraflops, peak

6 terabytes of memory

Intel Xeon E5-4650L(Sandy Bridge) processors (2.6 GHz)

Discover
Aggregate System:

67 racks (3,906 nodes)
43,240 cores

1.0018 petaflops, peak

96.136 terabytes of memory

Base Unit = Linux Cluster Custom Supersystem
520 Intel Xeon Dempsey (3.2 GHz)

Scalable Units 1 to 6 = IBM iDataPlex Cluster System

Scalable Units 1 to 4:

12,384 cores

Intel Xeon Westmere (2.8 GHz)

Scalable Units 5 and 6:

8,256 cores

Intel Xeon Nehalem (2.8 Ghz)

Scalable Unit 7 = Dell PowerEdge C6100 System

14,400 cores
Intel Xeon Westmere (2.8 GHz)
Scalable Unit 8 = IBM iDataPlex Cluster System
7,680 cores

Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge (2.6 GHz)
480 Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors (Many Integrated Core–MIC)

 

GPU

IBM iDataPlex
32 nodes (2 GPUs per node)

384 total cores (General Purpose Intel Xeon Westmere Cores)

28,672 total cores (GPU Streaming Cores)

36.4 teraflops, peak

1.92 terabytes of memory

Storage

Online:
9 petabytes of RAID disk capacity (combined total for all systems)

Archive Capacity:
115 petabytes

Online:
7.7 petabytes of RAID

Archive Capacity:
37 petabytes

Networking SGI NUMAlink
Voltaire InfiniBand
10-Gigabit Ethernet
1-Gigabit Ethernet
SGI NUMAlink
Mellanox Technologies and SilverStorm Technologies InfiniBand
10-Gigabit Ethernet
1-Gigabit Ethernet
Visualization and Analysis Hyperwall-2
128 graphics processing units (Nvidia 8800GTX cards)
~74 teraflops, peak processing power
1,024 AMD Opteron cores (quad-core)
1.5 petabytes of storage

Data Exploration Theater
Visualization Wall/Hyperwall

15 Samsung SyncMaster 46-inch displays
DVI connection
1366 x 768 screen resolution @720p

Visualization Wall/Hyperwall Cluster
16 Dell Precision WorkStation R5400s
2 dual-core Intel Xeon Harpertown processors per node
4 GB of memory per node
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 graphics
1 Gigabit Ethernet network connectivity
Control Station
One Dell FX100 Thin Client

Dali Data Analysis Nodes
IBM System x3950
272 Intel Xeon cores
24 NVIDIA Tesla M2070 GPUs with 10,752 “streaming GPU” CUDA cores
4.3 terabytes ofmemory
10-gigabit Ethernet network connectivity
Fibre channel access to the IBM GPFS file systems (~1 gigabyte/sec for large single stream file access)
NFS access to Dirac (archive) and data portal file systems

Data Portal

HP BladeSystem C7000
16 nodes, each containing:

  • 2 quad-core Intel Xeon 2.83 GHz processors
  • 8 gigabytes of memory

271 terabytes of network storage (GPFS managed)

NFS served to compute hosts

 

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