Computer Resources

HPCx

See the HPCx website

• IBM p575 cluster
• 1536 processors (maximum job size 1024)
• Shared memory nodes comprising 16 processors
• 1.5 GHz POWER5 CPUs dual-core
• AIX operating system
• LoadLeveler batch system
• IBM XL Fortran compiler
• Globus 2.4.3 and 4.0.1 installed under /usr/local/packages/globus
• SRB 3.3.1 and 3.4.0 installed under /usr/local/packages/srb

HECToR

To come into uder service on 1st April 2007

• Cray "Hood" - follow on to the Cray XT3
• Around 5000-6000 processors expected
• Nodes will consist of a single dual-core chip
• Opteron CPUs
• Catamount stripped-down Unix kernel on compute nodes
• ??? batch system
• PGI Fortran compiler
• Globus ???
• SRB ???

POL cluster

Resc cluster

PML cluster

NW-Grid clusters

See the NW-Grid website

NW-Grid has four High Performance Computing nodes at the lead sites of Daresbury, Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester. This provides a cost-effective commodity class HPC system initially with an aggregate capacity of order 512 processors expanding to at least 1024 processors.

The Daresbury cluster at dl1.nw-grid.ac.uk has the following specification:

• Sun x4100 cluster
• 192 processors
• 8-processor nodes consist of four dual-core chips
• Opteron DP280 CPUs 2.4 GHz
• Linux
• SCORE batch system
• PGI Fortran compiler v6.1-2
• Globus ???
• SRB ???

-- MikeAshworth - 07 Oct 2006