Facts and figures about the new cluster.
We are proud to announce that on September 7th UiT and HP signed a contract for a new HPC system that will be installed at UiT this fall. The new system is funded by UNINETT Sigma and UiT, and it will be part of the Notur system.
The new system will be 30 times as powerful as the current Snowstorm system; with 5632 Intel Xeon processor cores, more than 12 TB memory and over 200 TB disk and 60 TFlops theoretical peak performance.
The system will consist of 704 HP BL 460c blade servers (nodes), where each node has the following specifications:
- CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon 2,66GHz, each with 4 processor cores
- Memory per node: 16 GB (50 nodes with 32 GB)
- Internal disk: 120 Gigabyte
- Peak performance per node: 85,12 Gigaflop/s
Centralized storage: 128 Terabyte
Interconnect: Gigabit Ethernet between all the compute nodes + Infiniband between 384 of the compute nodes and the centralized storage system.
The environment on the new system will basically be the same as on Snowstorm (Rocks / Linux, Intel compilers and libraries etc), so users on Snowstorm should hopefully have a smooth transition to the new system. Snowstorm will still be available as a national resource until the fall in 2008.
If you have any questions about the new system, please don't hesitate to contact us.
The new system will be available from around December 1st, so just start to prepare for it... :-)
