# Presentation: 125356

## High Performance Computing Hardware with ISFS:  

- National Invasive Species Forecasting

- Josephine Palencia
- John E. Dorband

## Hardware Design: Summary

**Computing Environment:**
**Twin clusters: FIREANT!  &  Rockymount**
**2 development nodes,  **
**16 compute nodes, **
**1 storage node**
**Processor:****	****	****16-node, 32  1.4Ghz AMD Opteron 240DP**
**Speeds:****	****	****2.8 Gflop double, 5.6 Gflop single peak**
**Memory:****	****	****16 GB SDRAM**
**Diskspace: ****	****	****120 GB local/execute node ,**
** ****	****	****	****1.44 TBytes raided storage node**
**Network:****	****	****Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000**

## Design Details

***Motherboard:******	******	******Tyan Thunder K8S (S2880GNR)***
***Processor:******	******	******	******AMD Opteron 240 DP; 1.4Ghz; 1MB L2 cache***
***Memory:******	******	****** ******	******Kingston  1GB 333MHz DDR PC2700 Reg ECC DIMM***
***Harddrive:******	******	******	******Seagate 120GB Speed 7200rpm  8.5 ms seek time***
***Monitor******	******	******	******SAMSUNG Syncmaster 240T, 24IN LCD, 1920X1200 60HZ ***
***Graphics Card******	******	******MSI FX5600-VTDR128 (MS-8912) 128MB, GeForceFX nVIDIA***
***Raid Card Controller******	****** 3WARE Escalade 7506-12, 12 channel Ultra ATA, DiskSwitch ***
***DVD+RW Drive******	******	******TDK IndiDVD 440N black 4x2x12 Int IDE DVD+R/-R/+RW/-RW***
***Floppy drive******	******	******Samsung 1.44mb 3.5"  floppy Black***
***Keyboard+Mouse ******	******Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical PS/2 and USB. Black        ***
***                                     ******Dell keyboard PS/2 and USB 104keys Black***
***PC Case  Thermaltake XASER III V2420A ( SILVER ) 12-Bay All Aluminum ATX***
***                                     ******Super Tower Chassis w/ Large Side Window & Locks, 7 fans***

## Design Details (cont)

***Node Chassis******	******	****AIC RMC1D2-6I-DK8, 1U Rack Mount Chassis / 400W ATX/EPS PS*
- Heavy-duty cold-rolled steel, 19"(W) x 27"(D) x 1.75"(H), 8 x 40mm fans,
- 1 x PCI slot via riser card,  1 x slim CD + 4 x hot-swap
- Bays for 1" PATA, SCSI, or SATA HDD's with CPU cooler passive Dynatron DYHS-OPT1 Copper C1020 Dimension: 100x74x24 mm
***Storage Chassis******	******	****AIC RMC4D-IDE*
- 16x hot-swap drive bays for IDE or 15x hot-swap drive bays for SCA plus 2x5.25" . 1 x 5.25" slim CD-ROM + 1 x 3.5" slim FDD bays
***Chassis Cabinet******	******	****AIC Rack 36U  Dimensions: *23.5" x 73" x 68” *(WxDxH)*
***Gigabit switches******	******	****DGS-1024T Unmanaged 24-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T*
***Gigabit cable******	******	****Tripp Lite 10ft cable category cat6 gigabit patch snagless blue*

## Motherboard:  Tyan Thunder K8S

- Supports up to 2 AMD Opteron processors
- AMD Hypertransport PCI-X and I/O Hub
- 6 184-pin 2.5v DDR Dimm sockets up to 12Gb of registered DDR
- 2 Broadcom BCM5704C dual-channel GbE LAN controllers
- Integrated ATI Rage XL 8mb PIC graphics controller

- Integrated Promise SATA Raid controller (optional)
- Integrated Dual channel SCSI controller (optional)

## Processor: AMD Opteron 240DP

- Enables simultaneuous 32bit and 64 bit computing
- 200series (1-2way) across entire data using same hardware and software
- Supports up 2 3 coherent hypertransport links of up to 19.2Gb/s peak bandwidth
- Integrated memory controller reduces latencies during SMP memory access
- 256Tb of memory  address space

## FIREANT! & ROCKMOUNT Chassis

- AIC RMC1D2-6I-DK8, 1U Rack Mount Chassis with  400W ATX/EPS PS
-  Heavy-duty cold-rolled steel, 19"(W) x 27"(D) x 1.75"(H), 8 x 40mm fans, 1xPCI slot via riser card, + 4x hot-swap bays for 1" PATA, SCSI, or SATA HDD's;  CPU cooler passive Dynatron DYHS-OPT1 Copper C1020 Dim: 100x74x24 mm; 1 pair of slid rails/chassis

## Storage Chassis

- AIC RMC4D-IDE
- 16x hot-swap drive bays for IDE or 15x hot-swap drive bays for SCA plus 2x5.25" . 1 x 5.25" slim CD-ROM

## FIREANT! & ROCKMOUNT Cabinet 

- AIC Rack 36U
- Locking glass windowed front door (vented)
- 1 pair of adjustable recessed slide rails
- Dimensions:  23.5" x 73" x 68"  (WxDxH)