Aries, DIT new constellation of shared computing
© 2012 EPFL
Aries, a new IBM AMD Opteron cluster is available.
Aries is an IBM AMD Opteron cluster, available from February 2012. It's made of:
- a fontend consisting of two dodeca-cores processors AMD Opteron 6176 (Magny-Cours) 2.3 GHz, i.e. 24 cores, with 24 GB of memory;
- 2 racks including 44 pizza nodes; each node contains four processors dodeca-cores AMD Opteron 6176 (Magny-Cours) 2.3 GHz (i.e. 48 cores per node), each with 192 GB of memory i.e. 4 GB RAM per core; peak performance: 19.43 TFlops;
- nodes are interconnected by an InfiniBand fast network QDR at 40 Gb/s, (fully non-blocking);
- a GPFS dedicated storage of effective 87 TB, 14 TB for home and 73 TB for scratch.