BisGrid Cluster - BIS-Grid Project Resource

Access to the system

• UNICORE
• Globus-Toolkit

System configuration

• 64 processor cores
• 360 GFlop/s peak performance
  
• 512 GByte main memory
• 10 TByte hard disks

The cluster consists of a frontend system and 8 compute nodes, each with 4 AMD Opteron processors (8 cores) and 64 GByte of main memory.  All nodes are connected via InfiniBand  HCAs to a 24 port InfiniBand 4x DDR switch, via Gigabit Ethernet to a control network, and via FibreChanel to a Storage Area Network.
The Storage Area Network consists of a switched 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel fabric and 10 TByte disk storage. The parallel file system GPFS is used for high performance disk access.

• Frontend node
  • 2 sockets dual-core Opteron (4 cores, 2.8 GHz)
  • 4 GByte main memory
  • InfiniBand 4 x DDR HCA
  • Dual-port Fibre-Channel Controller
• 8 compute nodes, each with
  • 4 sockets dual-core Opteron (8 cores, 2.8 GHz)
  • 64 GByte main memory
  • InfiniBand 4 x DDR HCA
  • Dual-port Fibre-Channel Controller
• Storage
• FC Box with 16 x 750 GByte SATA disks

The system is operated for the German D-Grid project BIS-Grid. The user is available as a D-Grid resource.