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
![Example pic](images/prospero_install/P8050379.jpg)
Matt and Mark unpack the boxes.
![Example pic](images/prospero_install/P8050386.jpg)
Infiniband connections.
![Example pic](images/prospero_install/P8050387.jpg)
Mesmerized by linux skills of Dan from ACE computing.
![Example pic](images/prospero_install/P8050390.jpg)
All systems up and running.
![Example pic](images/eng_mag_01.jpg)
Picture from CU Engineering Magazine: Photo credit Glenn J. Asakawa