Unisys ES7000 Cluster
Mission
To best serve the needs of the 64-bit computing community at Penn State,
the Unisys machine provides a large amount of memory and disk I/O capacity
to best solve large applications. With 32 GB of RAM available per node, the
Unisys machine makes it possible to run applications of very large size.
Hardware
The Unisys ES7000 consists of the following hardware:
Two compute nodes
- Unisys ES7000 partition
- 16 Intel Itanium2 processors
- 6 MB L3 cache
- 32 GB of ECC RAM
- 36 GB of SCSI disk
- Myrinet high-speed interconnect
- one node currently doubles as a login machine
Software
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Unisys ES7000 runs the GNU/Linux operating system. 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 Unisys ES7000 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 Unisys ES7000 account. Please be sure
to include your Penn State Access Account userid and any special requests
you may have.
Accessing and Using Unisys ES7000
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Please refer to the Unisys ES7000's User's Guide for more information on accessing Unisys ES7000 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 Unisys ES7000 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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