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Projects

Possible workshops, tutorials and training might include:

MPI / Parallel programming

RDMA and OS bypass techniques

LAPack, tuning

Various HPC libraries (MAGMA, etc.)

Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform (Would be cool to have a profile for our cluster to integrate connecting and job submission)

Architecture

Kernel / Driver development

Firmware

System / Cluster administration

Job schedulers (Moab and SLURM)

Profiling / Debugging distributed applications

Virtualization (OpenStack?, Proxmox?)

Configuration management

Data Management (GridFTP, Globus, etc.)

Specifications

Resources

24 Nodes (18-20 available) 8 GB per node Total cores:(?) Interconnect: SeaStar(?)

Storage:(?)


Rack Measures ~24" x ~55"

Cooling:In rack air cooled. (No phase change Ecoflex piping to worry about, etc.)

Noise: Operation Db:(?)


Power 208 3 phase Also see Available_Utilities

Estimations of load:

Dave: 8 to 10 kW at full load, and I'm hoping that's closer to 5 kW in reality"

References

XT3 Hardware:

http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~tlthomas/buildout/email/2946.2.pdf

Development:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-sound-like-a-parallel-programming-expert-part-1-introducing-concurrency-and-parallelism


History of the System