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CHPC National Meeting 2011
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iQudu cluster (e1350 IBM Linux cluster)
| System Name | iQudu |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer/ Model | IBM e1350 Cluster |
| CPU | AMD Opteron |
| CPU Clock | 2.6 GHz (each node) |
| CPU Cores | 640 |
| Memory | 16GB (each node) |
| Peak Performance | 2.5 TFlops |
| Linpack Performance | 2.5 TFlops |
| Interconnect | Ethernet and Infiniband Network |
| Storage (formatted capacity) | 94 TB (Multi-cluster) |
| Launch date | 2007 |
iQudu Hardware
The cluster platform, aptly called "iQudu" (isiXhosa for Kudu), symbolises the agility, speed and size of the cluster.
- Each node is equipped with two dual-core AMD Opteron 2.6GHz Rev. F processors (640 CPUs in total at approximately 2.5 Teraflops/s peak performance) and 16GB of memory.
- The nodes are interconnected with the shared-file system of the SAN, accessed over the Infiniband 4X SDR 10 GB cluster via HTX from Voltaire and PathScale.
- Eight of the cluster nodes are equipped with ClearSpeed accelerator cards.
- In addition to local hard disks, all nodes have access to a shared storage system with a capacity of 94TB via a General Parallel File System (GPFS).