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Cluster & Resources

NPS HPC provides and supports a wide range of computing resources for the research community. All machines are available for allocated use unless specified. Detailed system information on each machine is described below.

HAMMING - NPS Shared Cluster

  • Sun Microsystems 6048 "blade" system
  • 4 racks, each with 4 shelves, each shelf holds 12 server blades
  • The blades carry multiple sockets with AMD, Intel, or Sparc CPU's.
  • 144 Blades containing 1152 cores.
  • Supports Sun OS, Red Hat Enterprise, Linux, CentOS, Rocks, and Fedora Core
  • Theoretical peak performance of 10.7 trillion operations per second.
  • 112 Terabytes of disk storage.
  • Scalable
  • Purpose: NPS shared R&D and academic resource cluster

RIEMANN - Math Cluster

  • 4 Node, 32 Core Apple Xserve
  • 4 Dual Quad core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon Processors
  • 12 MB L2 Cache 
  • 2 16X PCIe ports per blade
  • 8 GB of memory per blade
  • Access to 2.8 Terabytes of RAID 5 Storage
  • Peak 3GB/sec data throughput
  • Mac OS X, with access to Internet 2 and CENIC network
  • Purpose: Research and Development Cluster
anastasia cluster

ANASTASIA - Oceanography Cluster:

  • 4 nodes (8 processors per node) = 32 PE*
  • 4Dual core 1.8 GHz AMD 865 Opteron / node
  • 20 GB of PC3200 DDR RAM / node 
  • 1.15 TB accessible RAID 5 storage
  • Gigabit 10/100/1000 BaseT NIC
  • 11-node capacity (7 more would give 88 PE)
  • Fedora Linux (core 3 kernel 2.6.12-1)
  • Built by PSSC Labs
  • Purpose: Temperature / Salinity distribution in the ocean (important for vessel buoyancy)
wipeout cluster

WIPEOUT - MOVES Cluster:

  • 8 nodes (4 processors per node) = 32 PE*
  • 2 dual core 1.0 GHZ AMD 270 Opteron / node
  • 8 GB of RAM/node
  • CentOS Linux 4.2
  • Sun Sunfire V20z servers
  • Purpose: Modeling of Virtual Environments and Simulation
src cluster

SRC-6 - ECE Cluster:

  • Dual "MAP" Board (reconfigurable processor)
  • 2 Fedora Linux dual-processors
  • Translates from high-level (C) into logic circuits
  • "Field Programmable Gate Array" (FPGA)
    • reconfigurable CPU
    • millions of re-programmable logic gates
detonation cluster

DETONATION - MAE Cluster :

  • Belongs to: Professor R. Brown and J. Sinibaldi
  • 11 nodes (2 processors per node) = 22 PE*
  • 2 single core 2.6 GHz AMD 252 Opteron / node
  • 4 GB of RAM / node
  • Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.3
  • 2.0 TB storage
  • MOAB scheduling software suite loaded
  • Built by Western Scientific
  • Purpose: Detonation, combustion, explosions, weapons
cheetah cluster

CHEETAH - MAE Cluster:

  • 32 nodes (2 processors per node)
  • 2 dual core 2.0 GHz AMD Opteron 270 / node
  • 16 GB of RAM in Headnode
  • 4 GB of RAM / node
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server HPC Product
  • 80 GB SATA / node
  • Built by PSSC Labs
  • Gigabit 10/100/1000 BaseT NIC
  • Purpose: Mechanical Engineering overall academic use
kinglear cluster

KINGLEAR - ITACS Cluster:

  • 32 Processor Elements
  • 128 GB RAM
  • 1.7 GHz Power4+ Processors (32 total)
  • AIX 5.3 Operating System
  • Purpose: General purpose scientific computing
cheetah cluster

SVCL - MAE Cluster:

  • 32 nodes w/dual quad core Intel 5000 chipset - total 256 cores
  • 2 quad core 2.5 GHz Intel 5000 chip/ node
  • 8 GB of RAM / node
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server HPC Product
  • Built by PSSC Labs
  • 4.1 TB Storage
  • Gigabit 10/100/1000 BaseT NIC
  • Purpose: SVCL Research

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