RHIT Parallel Computing - Facilities

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Overview:  The Rose-Hulman cluster is an 18-node, rackmount, off-the-shelf  Apex Cluster system purchased from Advanced Clustering Technologies. It is housed in the IAIT machine room. The hardware and software specifications are below.

Cluster Hardware

Suppliers:

• Advanced Clustering Technologies (original cluster)
• Qsol.com (additional nodes)

Head node

• 2 Pentium III processors @ 1.0 Ghz
• 1024 Mbyte RAM
• 40 Gbyte hard drive
• Fast Ethernet (100 Mbit dual LAN)
• 40X CD-ROM

Original Cluster Nodes (18 nodes)

• 2 Pentium III processors @ 1.0 Ghz
• 1024 Mbyte RAM
• 20 Gbyte hard drive
• Fast Ethernet (100 Mbit)

Additional Cluster Nodes purchased and installed summer 2003 (10 nodes)

• 2 AMD Athlon processors @ 2.6 Ghz
• 1024 Mbyte RAM
• 40 Gbyte hard drive
• Fast Ethernet (100 Mbit)

Network Topology

Cluster Software

Operating System

• Redhat Linux 7.1

Compilers and Development

• PGI Cluster Development Kit
• parallel debugger and profiler
• compilers noted below
• Fortran
• High Performance FORTRAN including HPF Library
• auto-parallel  FORTRAN 77 and 90 (MPI parallelism integrated into compiler via libraries)
• OpenMP FORTRAN 77 and 90
• C and C++
• auto-parallel  C and C++
• OpenMP C and C++
• Libraries
• MPI Message-passing library 
• PVM Message-passing library 
• ScaLAPACK parallel math library 
• BLAS and LAPACK serial math libraries 
• PBS Portable Batch System
• Gnu compilers (gcc, g77, g90)
• more detail
• online documentation at the Portland Group

Open MP Hardware

• abacus and sliderule  
• Sun Enterprise 420R, with 4x450Mhz processors, 4G RAM, 72G local disk space, Solaris 8. 
• brain - each node supports 2-processor OpenMP

Open MP Software

• OpenMP FORTRAN compilers on abacus and sliderule - Forte suite, FORTRAN only.
• OpenMP FORTRAN and C compilers on brain