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CCS: Astrophysics: HPC Resources

The Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) provides state-of-the-art resources for high performance computational science and computing science research. The CCS offers storage resources as well as computing, networking and visualization resources.

As of Fall 2003, the primary CCS machines include:

  • Phoenix: (early evaluation) a Cray X1 with 224 multi-streaming processors (MSPs). Each MSP has 4 GB of memory, providing 896 GB of distributed, shared memory across the single system image.

  • Ram: (early evaluation) an SGI Altix with 256 processors. Each processor is a 1.3 GHz Itanium2 with 8 GB of memory. The total memory is then some 2 TB.

  • Cheetah: a 27-node IBM p690 System. The 27 "Regatta" nodes each have thirty-two 1.3 GHz Power4 processors. 19 of the nodes are 32-way while 8 of the nodes have been configured to have 4 8-way images denoted as "LPAR"s. The 8-way nodes have 8 GB of memory available. Most of the 32-way nodes have 32 GB of memory, but five of the 32-way nodes have 64 GB of memory and two of the 32-way nodes have 128 GB of memory.

    Conversion to the IBM Federation interconnect is scheduled for Winter.

  • Eagle: a 184-node IBM RS/6000 SP. The 176 "thin" nodes have four 375 MHz Power3-II processors and 2 GB of memory while 8 "wide" nodes have two 375 MHz Power3-II processors and 2 GB of memory.

  • and a terascale data storage facility

     

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