Prospero
Prospero is our group's high performance computing system, jointly shared with Profs. Desjardins and Yang.
Configuration
- Bright OS
- 32 compute nodes, 384 cores
- dual Xeon X5650 CPUs 6 Core Westmere Processors
- 24GB DDR3-1333 ECCR memory
- 250GB + 1 TB 7200rpm + 4 TB 7200rpm Enterprise Grade Hard Drives
- 8 him-mem compute nodes, 128 cores
- dual Xeon E5-2630v3 2.40GHz CPUs 8 Core Haswell-EP Processors
- 64GB DDR4-2133 ECCR memory
- 240GB + 4 TB 7200rpm Enterprise Grade Hard Drives
- 20 TB RAID 6 + 15 TB RAID 0 storage
- Mellanox MIS5030Q 36Port, 40Gb/s per port Infiniband Switch
- 3 Supermicro Layer 3 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet Switches
- head node
- dual Xeon X5650 CPUs 6 Core Westmere Processors
- 24GB DDR3-1333 ECCR memory
- 4 x 1 TB 7200rpm Enterprise Grade Hard Drives, RAID 5
Resources
- Prospero user and admin guides (user accounts required)
Installation

Matt and Mark unpack the boxes.

Infiniband connections.

Mesmerized by linux skills of Dan from ACE computing.

All systems up and running.

Picture from CU Engineering Magazine: Photo credit Glenn J. Asakawa