Del Cecchi
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Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:
New supercomputer with IB from Canada |
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As an equal opportunity gesture to IBM's competitors....
a press release...
Ciara Technologies Linux Cluster with 19,440 Intel Processors
Created 2004-11-24 00:00
The following information has been provided by the product vendor and does
not necessarily reflect the opinion of Linux Journal.
Product: VXR-3DT - Linux Cluster
Manufacturer: Ciara Technologies
Address: 9300 Trans Canada Highway, Saint Laurent, QC H4S 1K5 Canada
Telephone: 1-877-CIARAPC
URL: www.ciara-tech.com
snippage by me
Ciara Technologies, a provider of servers and supercomputer clusters,
announced the availability of the VXR-3DT. at the SuperComputing 2004 show
in Pittsburgh on November 8. The VXR-3DT is a high-end computer architecture
that can scale from 16 up to 19,440 IntelExtended Memory 64 Technology Xeon
processors while providing more than 140 TeraFLOPS of computing power with
integrated InfiniBand interconnect. (IBM's Blue Gene rate the fastest by the
Top500 is rated at 70.72 Teraflops)
The VXR-3DT gives users access to an extreme high-performance computing
(HPC) solution that offers a very competitive price/performance ratio. This
is possible due to the architecture of VXR-3DT being built from commodity
off-the-shelf hardware and networking components as well as incorporating
the Linux operating system. The system is scheduled for general availability
in late 2004.
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The VXR-3DT nodes are a 100 percent commodity-based building block with
dual-rail 12x InfiniBand distributed fabric and InfiniBand natively attached
RAID storage. The nodes are interconnected through high-speed, low-latency
12x InfiniBand network in a 3D Torus, Dual Rail Architecture providing more
than 3GB/s of I/O fabric bandwidth per node, with no single point of failure
in the entire system.
Ciara Technologies partnered with industry heavy weights such as Raytheon
IIS, Intel, Engenio and, Mellanox who have expertise in high-end High
Performance Computing systems, microprocessors, modular storage systems and
InfiniBand interconnect solutions. Raytheon Intelligence and Information
Systems in Garland, Texas, has developed the integrated, topology-aware
cluster management suite, while Ciara in Montreal, Canada, conducted the
hardware design and integration for the VXR-3DT hardware components. Ciara
will manufacture and sell the cluster systems under a license agreement with
Raytheon. Raytheon will sell and integrate these systems for its federal and
defense clients.
(wait a minute. I thought this was all off the shelf stuff. What hardware
design did Ciara do?)
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Product highlights on the VXR-3DT include the following:
100% commodity Linux cluster delivered and supported by leading industry
veterans
Unique Linux cluster architecture with dual-rail12x InfiniBand distributed
fabric
InfiniBand natively attached RAID storage
No single point of failure anywhere in system
Processor per Rack - 160
Initial Processor Speed (GHz)- 3.6
Type of Memory - DDR2 400 ECC/Reg
Memory per CPU - 16 GBytes
Total CPUs - 19,440
Total Memory 311 TBytes
Total Storage Capacity (Max. I/O BW) - 650 TBytes
Compute Rack (Max.) -132
System Performance Linpak Rmax (TFlop/s)- 140
System Performance Estimated Linpak Rpeak (TFlop/s) - 108
Maximum I/O Bandwidth (1300 I/O Ports) - 2.6 TBytes/s
Maximum Fabric Bandwidth (18x15x18) - 3.9 TBytes/s
Surface for Compute System (Square/feet) - 2,240
Source URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7913 |
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