NCSA Computational Resources

Dell Intel® 64 Tesla Cluster [lincoln]

Lincoln consists of 192 compute nodes (Dell PowerEdge 1950 dual-socket nodes with quad-core Intel Harpertown 2.33GHz processors and 16GB of memory) and 96 NVIDIA Tesla S1070 accelerator units. Each Tesla unit provides 345.6 gigaflops of double-precision performance and 16GB of memory.

Dell Intel® 64 Cluster [abe]
Peak performance: 89.47 TF (62.68 TF sustained)
Top 500 list debut: #8 (June 2007)

This Dell blade system has 1,200 PowerEdge 1955 dual socket, quad core compute blades, an InfiniBand interconnect and 400 TB of storage in a Lustre filesystem.

Abe is a shared resource that is 60% allocated through the National Science Foundation allocation process, with the remaining time allocated at the discretion of the NCSA leadership to serve state of Illinois, University of Illinois strategic initiatives, and NCSA's Private Sector Program Partners.

SGI Altix [cobalt]
1,024 Intel Itanium 2 processors
Peak performance: 6.55 TF (6.1 TF sustained)
Top 500 list debut: #48 (June 2005)
Updated peak performance August 2008: 8.2 TF

The SGI Altix consists of several Intel Itanium 2 processor shared-memory systems running the Linux operating system.
Note: Pending NSF approval, this resource will be available until March 31 2011.

IBM IA-64 Linux Cluster [mercury]
1,774 Intel Itanium 2 1.3/1.5 GHz processors, 4 GB and 12 GB memory/node
Peak performance: 10.23 TF (7.22 TF sustained)
Top 500 list debut: #15 (June 2004)

The IA-64 TeraGrid cluster consists of 887 IBM dual processor Itanium 2 nodes, running SuSE Linux and Myricom's Myrinet cluster interconnect network.
Note: This resource will be retired on March 31 2010.

Mass Storage System (MSS)

NCSA's hierarchical archival storage system is available for permanent storage of data. Access is via the FTP and SSH based transfer clients, including GridFTP clients. NCSA's mass storage now holds more than six petabytes of data and has the capacity to archive ten petabytes of data.