| Compute Blades |
Processors
Memory, IO and Storage |
| IP-101 |
IP-103 |
IP-105 |
IP-106 |
IP-110 |
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- 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
- 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333 MT/s ECC reg. DIMMs
- One single-port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
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- 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
- 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333 MT/s ECC reg. DIMMs
- One dual-port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
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- 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
- 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333 MT/s ECC reg. DIMMs
- Two single-port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
- One 2.5" SATA HDD or 1.8" SSD
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- 16 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
- 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333MHz ECC reg. DIMMs
- Two single port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
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- 16 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
- 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333MHz ECC reg. DIMMs
- One dual port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
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| Blade Enclosures |
Interconnect
Power and Cooling |
| ICE 8400LX |
ICE 8400EX |
- Two 40Gb/sec InfiniBand switch blades, one high performance plane
- Standard hypercube, enhanced hypercube, all-to-all, or fat tree topology
- Redundant dedicated GigE administrative network, chassis management controller
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- Four 40Gb/sec InfiniBand switch blades, two high performance planes
- Standard hypercube, enhanced hypercube, all-to-all, or fat tree topology
- Redundant dedicated GigE administrative network, chassis management controller
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- 5+1 redundant 1625W 12V DC output front-end power supplies. (6+1 redundant power supplies when 105W+ CPU sockets are configured)
- 7+1 redundant 175mm blowers
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| Storage |
| High-performance IPoIB solutions |
- High performance shared file systems
- IP over InfiniBand
- Native InfiniBand block level access
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| Racks |
| 42U (30"W x 40"D or 76.2cm x 101.6cm) Rack |
- Each rack supports up to four blade enclosures, each with up to 16 dual-socket compute blades accommodating up to 128 sockets (1536 cores) per rack
- Standard 19"(48.26cm) racks also supported, each with up to two blade enclosures and 10U of extra space for storage
- Cooling: Air (standard) or water (optional)
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| System Management |
| Hierarchical Management Framework Controllers |
| Tier 1: System Administration Controller |
Tier 2: Rack Leader Controller (RLC) |
Tier 3: Chassis Management Controller |
- One per SGI ICE system
- Provisions out software to RLC
- Pulls aggregated cluster management data from RLC
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- One per four blade enclosures
- Holds blade boot images
- Runs fabric management software
- Aggregates cluster management data for rack
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- One per blade enclosure
- Controls master power to all compute nodes
- Monitors power and blade enclosure environment
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| Service Node Options |
- Login Service Node
- Gateway Service Node
- Batch Service Node
Service nodes can be optionally configured with:
- GPU's: NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 1800/3800/4800/5800, NVIDIA® Quadro® 2000/4000/5000/6000/7000, NVIDIA® Tesla™ C/S2050, C/S/M2070, M2090
- Hard Disk Drives (SAS and/or SATA)
- I/O cards (various)
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| System Software |
| Operating Systems |
- SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
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| Cluster Solution Stack |
- SGI Foundation Software 2: optimized drivers and system monitoring
- SGI® Performance Suite: optimized system and application performance
- SGI® Management Suite: cluster management software
- Altair® PBS Professional™: job scheduling and workload management
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| Software Development |
| Programming Languages and Debuggers |
- C & C++: Intel C++ Compiler, GNU GCC
- Fortran: Intel Fortran Compilers (Fortran 95), GNU GCC (Fortran77)
- Debuggers: Intel Debugger included with Intel compilers, GNU GDB, Rogue Wave Software TotalView Team, Allinea DDT Intel® Inspector XE
- Performance Analysis: Intel® VTune Amplifier XE, Intel® Trace Analyzer & Collector
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| Libraries |
- SGI MPI
- Intel® Math Kernel Library
- Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives
- OpenMP included with Intel compilers
- Intel® Parallel Building Blocks
- Intel® MPI Library
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