Hardware
The information below concerns the current state of HPC hardware used at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava.
Abacus and Soroban
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Processor: 1 x CPU IBM PowerPC POWER5+ (1,65 GHz, 4 cores) Memory: 16 GB RAM HDD: 73 GB SCSI systémový disk, 136 GB SCSI scratch disk (abacus), 300 GB SCSI scratch disk (soroban) Network interfaces: 2 x GigabitEthernet Operating system:OS IBM AIX for special SW that is not available for OS Linux (e.g. ArcGIS, LMS Virtual.Lab) |  |
Alfa
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Cluster of 8 nodes. Node configuration: Processor: 2 x CPU AMD Opteron 250 (2,4 GHz, 1MB L2 cache) Memory: 4 GB RAM (400MHz DDR) HDD: 72 GB SCSI disc (HP 10k rpm) Network interfaces: 4 x GigabitEthernet (1 Gbit/s) OS: GNU/Linux |  |
Beta
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Two nodes for memory-intensive operations. Node configuration: Processor: 2 x CPU AMD Opteron DC 2200 (2,8 GHz, 2 cores per CPU) Memory: 32 GB RAM HDD: 73 GB SAS system disc, 73 GB SAS scratch disc Network interfaces: 4 x GigabitEthernet OS: GNU/Linux |  |
Comsio
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Cluster of 8 computing nodes + 1 control and storage node. Computing node configuration: Processor: 2x CPU AMD Opteron 2210 HE (low-energy input dual-core processor - 68W) 1,8GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM HDD: system disc 72 GB SAS, scratch diss 72 GB SAS Network interfaces: 4x 1Gb/s ethernet, Infiniband card 4X DDR Control node configuration: Processor: 2x CPU AMD Opteron 2210 HE Memory: 13 GB RAM HDD: 2x system disc (RAID 1) - 72 GB SAS, RAID controller with 64 MB cache memory and battery backup unit Network interfaces: 4x 1Gb/s ethernet, Infiniband card 4X DDR Storage node configuration (shared cluster disk): 6x disk 146GB SAS, RAID 5 Controller with 256 MB cache memory and battery backup unit |  |
Floreon SMP
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Symmetric multiprocessing server. Processor: 8 x CPU AMD Opteron 8380 (2,5 GHz, 4 cores) Memory: 256 GB RAM HDD: 8 x 73 GB SAS diss for system and scratch Network interfaces: 4 x GigabitEthernet, Infiniband card 4X DDR SAN interface: 2 x 4Gb/s Fibre Channel for dedicated disk field connection OS: Windows Server |  |
HP Eva
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HP EVA shared storage array. HDD: 300 GB FC, total capacity for SPC: 6TB Network interfaces: 4x 4Gb/s FibreChannel |  |
Teri
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Cluster of 16 nodes. Node configuration: Processor: 2x CPU Intel Xeon E5420 (4 cores per CPU) Memory: 18 GB RAM HDD: 120 GB SATA Network interfaces: 2x Gb/s ethernet, Infiniband card 4X DDR |  |