Pacman
Pacman is a Penguin Computing cluster comprised of Opteron processors. It has 2696 compute cores and a connects to the 275 TB center-wide Lustre file system. PACMAN is an acronym for the Pacific Area Climate Monitoring and Analysis Network.
Specifications
The pacman system configuration is as follows:
- 12 Login Nodes
- 2- Six core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron Processors
- 64 GB of memory per node. (4 GB per core)
- 1 Mellanox Infiniband DDR Network Card
- 1 Large Memory Login Node
- 4 Eight core 2.3 GHz AMD Opteron Processors
- 256 GB of memory per node (8 GB per core)
- QLogic QDR Infiniband Network Card
- 800 GB local disk
- 140 GB solid state drive
- 256 Four Core Compute Nodes
- 2- Dual Core 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron Processors
- 16 GB of memory per node (4 GB per core)
- Voltaire DDR Infiniband Network Card
- 88 Sixteen Core Compute Nodes
- 2 Eight core 2.3 GHz AMD Opteron Processors
- 64 GB of memory per node (4 GB per core)
- QLogic QDR Infiniband Network Card
- 250 GB local disk
- 14 Twelve Core Compute Nodes
- 2 Six core 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron Processors
- 32 GB of memory per node (2.6 GB per core)
- Mellanox Infiniband DDR Network Card
- 3 Large Memory Compute Nodes
- 4 Eight core 2.3 GHz AMD Opteron Processors
- 256 GB of memory per node (8 GB per core)
- QLogic QDR Infiniband Network Card
- 800 GB local disk
- 140 GB solid state drive
- QLogic QDR Infiniband Interconnect
- Voltaire Infiniband Interconnect used by four core nodes
- Connects to the 275 TB Center-wide Lustre file system
Description
Pacman is appropriate for solving large compute and memory intensive parallel jobs. The multi-core nodes on pacman make the system appropriate for both OpenMP and MPI applications.
Pacman runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and the Torque/Moab batch system scheduler.
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