High Performance Computing resources available to CS / Math / UW

See also:

• The MFCF page on High Performance Computing
• UW Centre for High Performance Computing
• SHARCnet at Waterloo

SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing)

HPC resource, adminis"> Flexor (UW HPC resource, administered by MFCF)

• SGI Origin 3800
• 52 MIPS processors
• 52 GB RAM
• OS: Irix 6.5 (64-bit)
• MFCF Web page

Tuxor (Math)

• SGI Origin 2000
• 8 MIPS processors
• 8 GB RAM
• OS: Irix 6.5 (64-bit)
• MFCF Web page

Pilatus (Math/CS)

• SGI Altix 3700
• MFCF's Pilatus web page
• 64 Itanium2 processors
• 192 GB memory
• OS: Novell SLES 10 with SGI ProPack 5
• PilatusAccounts - information on how to get an account on pilatus
• CFI funded (A. Storjohann, J. Orchard)

Winisk (Math)

• SGI Altix 350
• 6 Itanium2 processors
• 36 GB RAM
• OS: Novell SLES 10 with SGI ProPack 5
• owned by K.Lamb, AM
• Proposed addition of 10 processors, 60 GB RAM in current CFI New Opportunities grant

HPC resource, administ"> Visor (UW HPC resource, administered privately)

• SGI Onyx 2000 with FakeSpace visualization centre
• 16 MIPS processors, 16 GB RAM, 2 IR3 graphics pipes
• OS: IRIX 6.5 64-bit
• CFI funded (T.Seebohm; various CS and Eng. profs)
• Visor's web page

Curupira (CS)

• SGI Onyx 3000
• 8 MIPS processors, 8 GB RAM, IR3 graphics pipe
• OS: IRIX 6.5. 64-bit
• CFI funded (G.Baranoski, et al.)

Clusters

Apple G5 cluster (Math)

• 41 G5 nodes
• CFI/CRC funded (J.Geelen, N.Wormald)

Cabernet (SGI GPU Cluster - Justin Wan)

• SciComGPUcluster

Dell cluster (CS - AI/CGL)

• older cluster of 10 Dell, 4P machines
• recently re-installed with Linux, by CGL group
• Contact: Richard Mann

Bioinformatics Open Mosix cluster

• all of Bioinformatics machines are tied together in an Open Mosix cluster
• Contact: Dan Brown

UW-DIG Open Mosix cluster

• student-run cluster of older PCs
• Contact: Dave Gawley

Vidal (Development Cluster) (Math / CS)

• 20 nodes each with:
  • 2 Opteron processors
  • 4gb RAM
• 3.5 TB storage
• proposed in current CFI New Opportunities grant (P. Poupart, K. Larson, S. Ben-David)

Marroo (Experimental Cluster) (Math / CS)

• 21 nodes each with:
  • 2 Opteron processors
  • 8gb RAM
• 2.5 TB storage
• proposed in current CFI New Opportunities grant (A. Aboulnaga, I. Ilyas)

Shiraz (Experimental Cluster) (Math / CS)

• 21 nodes each with:
  • 2 Opteron processors
  • 8gb RAM
• 2.5 TB storage
• proposed in current CFI New Opportunities grant (A. Aboulnaga, I. Ilyas)

CS Teaching Cluster - ugster.student.cs

• 24 nodes (4 of which are for development)
  • Sun Fire X21000 X64 Server
  • AMD Opteron Model 148 processor (2.2Ghz/1GB)
    • Rocks 4.2.1 cluster management http://www.rockscluster.org/
    • UW Installation UndergradCluster
• so far for CS472 (jwlwan@uwaterloo.ca) and CS457 (kfkwok@uwaterloo.ca)
• Contact: Edward Chrzanowski

SHARCNET (UW)

• New addition to the existing SHARCnet system
• approximately 3000 processors
• funding approved (approx $40million)
• RFP in process
• installation expected to begin in Summer 2005
• Contact: Mike Hudson (UW Site Leader) or Jeff Chen, Physics

-- LawrenceFolland - 25 Jan 2005, MikePatterson - 16 Feb 2007