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

Installation


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Matt and Mark unpack the boxes.
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Infiniband connections.

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Mesmerized by linux skills of Dan from ACE computing.

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All systems up and running.

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