Hammer
Hammer is an interactive login cluster designed to
address the need for running jobs interactively rather than through a
batch submission system. It is targetted mainly at those users who need to
use scientific applications such as Matlab, Ansys, Abaqus, etc., through
their GUI interface. Those users needing to run such applications in a
batch mode (running many instances of the application from the command line
instead of through the GUI) should use one of the batch submission clusters
such as LION-XL, LION-XM, or LION-XO instead.
Hardware
Hammer consists of the following hardware:
7 interactive login nodes
- Sun SunFire v40z 3U Rackmount Boxes
- Quad 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron Processors
- 32 GB of ECC RAM
- 584 GB of local scratch disk
Software
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A list of installed software packages can be found on the
software page.
Other packages can be installed upon request.
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Obtaining an Account
To obtain an account on Hammer you first need to be sure
that you have a Penn State Access Account. If you do not, you will need
to work with the ITS Accounts
Services group to get one.
If you have a Penn State Access Account already, send an email to Jason
Holmes at jholmes@psu.edu requesting your Hammer account. Please be sure
to include your Penn State Access Account userid and any special requests
you may have.
Accessing and Using Hammer
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Please refer to the Hammer User's Guide for more information on accessing Hammer and compiling and running applications on it.
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Performance
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Benchmarking is an on-going process. Results so far are very encouraging.
Please click here for the Hammer theoretical and application performance numbers.
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Please send questions or suggestions about this web page to beatnic@aset.psu.edu
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