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Milipeia Cluster (inactive)

Cluster description

The Milipeia cluster is made of:

Hardware

2 management nodes: Sun Fire X4100:

  • 2 x Opteron 275 CPUs (double core @ 2.2 GHz)
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 2 x 36GB SAS hard disks (RAID 1)
  • 4 x 1Gbps network connections (Data + MPI)

1 x FiberChannel Sata Array: Sun 3511 StorEdge

  • 6 TB of capacity
  • 2 x 1 Gbps fibre-channel connections to each management node

130 computing nodes: Sun Fire X4100:

  • 2 x Opteron 275 CPUs (double core @ 2.2 GHz)
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 1 x 36GB SAS hard disk
  • 4 x 1Gbps network connections (Data + MPI)

Software

  • Operating System: Striped version of CentOS 5.4.
  • Resource Manager: Torque (2.4.7)
  • Scheduler: Maui (3.3).
  • Allocation Management: Gold (2.2).
  • User Environment Manager: Environment Modules (3.2.7b).
  • Compilers: GNU and Intel.
  • Taskfarm (courtesy of ICHEC)

(click here for a complete list of the installed software)

Equipamento financiado pelo PNRC (Programa Nacional de Re-equipamento) sob a égide da FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) e co-financiado pelo Programa POCI2010, FEDER.

Available Software

Compilers and Interpreters:

  • gcc (4.1, 4.4 & 4.6)
  • Intel (11 & 12)
  • Python (2.4 & 2.7)

Message Passing Interface libraries:

  • OpenMPI (1.4 & 1.6)
  • MPICH2 (1.2)

Libraries:

  • acml (4.3)
  • chelp (2.0)
  • fftw (2.1 & 3.2)
  • fsl (4.1)
  • hdf5 (1.8)
  • mkl (11 & 12)

Programs:

  • OpenFOAM (2.1)
  • amber9 (9.0)
  • cpmd (3.13)
  • flair (0.9)
  • freesurfer (5.0)
  • gamess (Jan2012)
  • geant4 (9.2 & 9.3)
  • gromacs (4.5)
  • matlab (R2012a)(*)
  • mcnpx (26f)(*)
  • namd (2.7b2)
  • nwchem (5.1)
  • octave (3.2)
  • root (5.28)
  • namd (2.7b2)
  • jemris (2.7)
  • blast (v. 2.2.29+) and mpiblast (v. 1.6.0)

(*)These programs are only available to the user/groups allowed to use them, restricted either by License or by special Confidentiality agreements.