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This document is loosely modeled after “A Beginner's Guide to the Barrine Linux HPC Cluster” written by Dr. David Green (HPC manager, UQ) , ICE Cluster User Guide written by Bryan Hughes and Wiki pages of the City University of New York (CUNY) HPC Center (see reference for further details).
2. Gowonda Overview
2.1 Hardware
2.1.1 Hardware (2024 upgrade) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.1.2 Hardware (2019 upgrade) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 Old Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Node Type | Total Number of Cores | Total Amount of Memory (GB) | Compute Nodes | Cores Per node | Mem per Node (GB) | Memory per Core | Processor Type | ||
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Small Memory Nodes 48 48 4
12 12 1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz | |||||||||
Medium Memory Nodes | 108 | 216 | 9
| 12 | 24 | 2 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz | ||
Large Memory Nodes | 72 | 288 | 6
| 12 | 48 | 4 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz | ||
Extra Large Memory Nodes with GPU (see table below for more details about GPU) | 48 | 384 | 4
| 12 | 96 | 8 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz | ||
Extra Large Memory Nodes (no GPU) | 96 | 768 | 8
| 12 | 96 | 8 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz | ||
Special Nodes (no GPU) | 64 | 128 | 16
| 16 | 32 | 2 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz | ||
Special Large Memory Nodes (no GPU) | 64 | 1024 | 8
| 16 | 256 | 16 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz | ||
Special Large Memory Nodes (no GPU) | 192 | 1536 | 24
| 16 | 128 | 8 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz |
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Instructions for using the Windows HPC is given in a separate user guide
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3 Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The operating system on gowonda is RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1 updated with SGI foundation-2.4 suite and accelerate-1.2 support package. The queuing system used is PBS Pro 11 . The exception is the Windows HPC node which runs Windows 2008 R2 with Windows HPC pack and Windows HPCS job scheduler. Gowonda has the following compilers and parallel library software. Much more detail on each can be found below.
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