OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research

OSCER Resources

Currently, OSCER hardware resources are housed in Sarkeys Energy Center on the OU Norman campus.


Cluster: Aspen Systems Linux Pentium4 Xeon DP

Cluster Hardware

boomer.oscer.ou.edu
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Item Description Quantity
Performance GFLOP/s 1080 theoretical peak
606.9 sustained (HPL)
Racks Standard 42U 11
Nodes
Compute 135
Head (interactive logins) 2
Storage (NFS) 6
FiberChannel
connected to FAStT500 disk server
2
Management (runs PBS) 1
CPUs Pentium4 Xeon DP "Prestonia"
2.0 GHz 512KB L2 cache
2 per node
Motherboard/
Chipset
Supermicro/Intel 860
Compute nodes w/o SCSI controller
Non-compute nodes w/SCSI controller
1 per node
Main Memory RDRAM 2 GB per node
Hard Disk
(EIDE except as noted)
Compute OS & local scratch:
1 x 40 GB each
5400 GB total
Head OS:
18 GB SCSI each
realtime:
3 x 73 GB RAID5 (219 GB total) connected to both
Storage OS: 18 GB SCSI each
global home (NSF):
1 x 120 GB each (480 GB total) on Storage Nodes 3, 4, 5, 6
global scratch (NSF):
3 x 120 GB each on Storage Nodes 3, 4, 5, 6; 4 x 120 GB each on Storage Nodes 7, 8 (2400 GB total)
FiberChannel                                                                               OS: 18 GB SCSI each
Management OS: 18 GB SCSI
logging: 2 x 120 GB
(240 GB total)
GRAND TOTAL
(OS, home, realtime, scratch)
8937 GB
Interconnect Myrinet2000 (primary);
100 Mbps Ethernet (backup)
all nodes
Programming Model Message Passing  

Cluster Software

Operating System Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.0
Message Passing MPICH
Scheduler OpenPBS/Maui Scheduler
Compilers Portland Group: Fortran90, HPF, C, C++
Intel: Fortran (77/90), C/C++
GNU: g77, gcc, g++
NAG: Fortran 95 (front end to gcc)
Numerical Libraries BLAS, LAPACK, scaLAPACK
Parallel Debugger TotalView
Code Analyzer LintPlus for C, Fortran Lint
Other software purchases to be announced


These resources and their availability are subject to change without notice (although notice will be given if at all possible).

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