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NCSA Intel 64 Tesla Linux Cluster Lincoln Technical Summary

Production date: February 2, 2009

[lincoln.ncsa.uiuc.edu]
[login-lincoln.ncsa.teragrid.org]

COMPONENT DESCRIPTION
Hardware & Networking Architecture Heterogeneous
  • Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers
  • NVIDIA Tesla S1070 Accelerator Units
  • Each server connected to 2 Tesla processors via PCI-e Gen2 X8 slots
Peak FLOPs 47.5 TF
Number of Servers
Number of CPUs (cores)
192
1536
Number of Accelerator Units 96
Processor
  • Intel 64 (Harpertown) 2.33 GHz dual socket quad core
  • 1333 MHz front side bus (per socket)
  • 2x6 MB L2 cache
Memory
  • Per node (per core): 16 GB (2 GB)
  • Type: DDR2
Accelerator Units
  • 4 Tesla Processors
  • 4.147 teraflops single-precision performance
  • 345.6 gigaflops double-precision performance
  • 16GB memory
Network Interconnect InfiniBand SDR (linked with Abe)
Parallel Filesystem Lustre (400 TB total; shared with Abe)
Software Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Linux 2.6.19)
Compilers
  • Intel: Fortran77/90/95 C C++
  • GNU: Fortran77 C C++
Batch System Torque (based on PBS)/Moab
Environment Control SoftEnv
Grid Software Provided via Coordinated TeraGrid Software and Services (CTSS)
Policies/User Limits Home directory disk quota 50 GBytes
Interactive scratch quota None currently
Charging Algorithm
(charging as of March 2 2009)
  # SUs = 8 * #Nodes * Time

  where
  SUs  = Service Units
  Time = Total Wall Clock Hours
  

Recommended Use Guidelines

The Lincoln cluster is intended as a resource in the use of heterogeneous processors for scientific computing.