Number Crunchers 1 & 2:
A Consulting Project for SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse
Project Dates: September 2002 - February 2003
Front view of the two clusters shortly after assembly (Jan 8, 2003).
Cluster rear view.
Project
Two identical Linux clusters
NumberCruncher1
NumberCruncher2
Total number of CPUs: 64
Budget: $100,000
Supervision of
Cluster ordering
Cluster assembly and deployment
System configuration
Parallel software and
excitable media
simulation programs (C++/MPI)
Cluster Vendor/Integrator
Microway, Inc.
Peak Performance
141 GIGAFLOPS
Nodes
Dual AMD Athlon MP 2200+
15 Slaves, 1 Master (each cluster)
1GB RAM (4GB on Masters)
80GB IDE HD (2x73GB SCSI on Masters)
Microway NodeWatch cluster management hardware
Node Interconnect
Switched Gigabit Ethernet over Cat 5e/6 Copper cables (1000BaseT)
Two 16-Port Gigabit Netgear Switches
Cabinet and Power
Two 24U Microway rackmount cabinets (each with 2 door fans)
Each cluster requires three 120V 15A power lines
Software
OS: Red Hat Linux 7.3
Compiler: GCC
Parallel Software: MPICH (MPI libraries)
Management: Ganglia/NodeWatch
External Interface
Two Master nodes are connected to a display via a KVM switch
Two Master nodes are connected to the outside LAN
Remote logins to the Master node (SSH)
Web cluster management (HTTPS)
Intended Use
Excitable media simulations and heart modeling
Contact
:
Dr. R. Zaritski
