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Parallel Computing Facilities for Engineering Students Jason Winningham University of Alabama in Huntsville jdw@eng.uah.edu August 30, 2007 Jason Winningham Parallel Computing Facilitiesfor Engineering Students x12 cluster 32 node beowulf

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Parallel Computing Facilities for Engineering Students

Jason Winningham

University of Alabama in Huntsville jdw@eng.uah.edu

August 30, 2007

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x12 cluster

32 node beowulf cluster gigabit network mpich

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what is a cluster?

now - network of workstations name of first such cluster was beowulf uses standard computer and network hardware con: communication is slower than “real” supercomputers pro: much cheaper!

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x12 node specs

Dell PowerEdge 750 1U rackmount 3.2GHz Pentium 4, HT 512kb/1Mb cache 1Gb RAM 40Gb SATA (os, swap) gigabit ethernet names n01 - n32

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x12 server specs

Dell PowerEdge 1750 1U rackmount dual 3.2GHz Xeon HT 2Mb cache 2Gb RAM 2x 143b SCSI, software RAID mirror 3x gigabit ethernet NFS, job control, interface to outside world x12.eng.uah.edu no jobs on the server! enforced with cpu time limit

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x12 specs

network Dell Powerconnect 5224 / 5324 managed layer 2 switch 24 gigabit ports connected with aggregated link, 4Gbit total power 3x APC SmartUPS 2200VA good for a only few minutes intended for short duration outages, brownouts

nline monitoring / remote control

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venus

SunFire T1000 Sun Niagra T1 processor 8 core UltraSPARC 32 threads 8Gb RAM 2x 72 Gb iSCSI 4x gigabit ethernet mpich, shared memory, threads

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venus vs. bragg

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links

Support Web support.eng.uah.edu NUT status page eng.uah.edu/cgi-bin/upsstats.cgi Jason’s home page www.eng.uah.edu/∼jdw

Jason Winningham Parallel Computing Facilitiesfor Engineering Students