SERC

IBM Cluster P720

 

 
HARDWARE OVERVIEW
Sixtyfour 4-way SMP nodes (256 processors) P720 open power systems
IBM Power-5 processors operating at 1.65 GHz
4 GB main memory per node with a total of 256GB for the cluster
146GB Disk per node with a total of more 9TB disk space
Dual Gigabit network with Nortel 5510 Gigabit switches
 
SYSTEM SOFTWARE/LIBRARIES
SUSE Enterprise linux 9.0 Operating System
XL FORTRAN 77 90 C Compilers with Debuggers.
Support for IBM Symmetric Multiprocessor Open Shared Memory Parallelization Directives.
Math Library ESSL
Mathematical Acceleration Library MASS
MPI Message Passing Directives.
Batch Submission System - LoadLeveler
How to get access and Use
After getting access you can login to interactive node cnode39 (10.16.2.131) using common pool password.
Local scratch /cluster/utemp/< loginid> is available for Job runtime use.Files older than 15 days in this area will be deleted.
Details of System software
HOWTOs