High Performance ComputingThis is a brief overview of the supercomputing infraestructure available for our research |
| Name | Institution | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Orcinus | Westgrid (University of British Columbia) | Orcinus is an HP blade-based cluster with 3072 cores. |
| Grex |
Westgrid (University of Manitoba) |
Grex is a SGI Altix XE 1300 cluster with 3792 cores. It is intended for parallel applications that can take advantage of either the non-blocking low latency Infiniband network or the large memory per compute node. (Ranked 44 on the Green500 List, 315 on the Top500) |
| Woodhen | University of Princeton | 768-processor beowulf cluster that can support applications requiring up to 2GB of memory per processor. |
| Scinet
General Purpose Cluster |
SciNet Consortium (University of Toronto) |
306 TFlops peak; 30,240 cores of
Intel Xeon E5540 aka "Nehalem" (2.53GHz); 2 GB RAM/core; 3,780 nodes
(IBM iDataPlex DX360M2); hybrid GigE and InfiniBand interconnect; #16
on June
2009 TOP500
list. |
| Name | Institution | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| bugaboo | Westgrid (Simon Fraser University) | 1280 cores, Xeon, 2 GB |
| snowpatch | Westgrid (Simon Fraser University) | 256 cores, Xeon, 2 GB |
| gridstone | Westgrid (Simon Fraser University) | storage, 100 TB disk, 600 TB tape, AIX |
| silo | Westgrid (University of Saskatchewan) | storage, 600 TB disk, 760 TB tape |
| cortex | Westgrid (University of Alberta) | shared memory, 2x64 cores, PowerPC |
| nexus | Westgrid (University of Alberta) | shared memory, 240 core, SGI |
| checkers | Westgrid (University of Alberta) | 1280 cores, Xeon, 2 GB, IB |
| glacier | Westgrid (University of British Columbia) | 1680 cores, Xeon, 1-2 GB, gigE |
| Hermes
and Nestor |
Westgrid (Research Computing Facility at the University of Victoria) | Hermes is a capacity cluster geared towards serial jobs. The Hermes cluster consists of 84 nodes (672 cores). Nestor is a capability cluster consisting of 288 nodes (2304 cores) geared towards large parallel jobs. . Both hermes.westgrid.ca and nestor.westgrid.ca are aliases for a common pool of head nodes named litaiNN.westgrid.ca. The choice of destination hostname when connecting to this facility has no bearing on what kind of jobs may be run: one may log in to hermes.westgrid.ca and submit a parallel job to the Nestor cluster.Each node in the Nestor and Hermes clusters is an IBM iDataplex server with eight 2.67-GHz Xeon x5550 cores with 24 GB of RAM. |
| Colossus | CLUMEQ is a research consortium
for high performance computing (HPC).
It is composed of McGill University, Université Laval, and the
Université du Québec. |
Cluster of 960 nodes, each with 8 processor cores (7680 cores total) and 24 gigabytes of RAM (23 TB total), with a full bisection Infiniband QDR network and a Lustre parallel file system of capcity up to 1 PB (currently 500 TB). |
| Krylov | CLUMEQ |
heterogeneous cluster of 48 nodes, each with either 4 or 8 processor cores (300 cores total) and 8 or 16 GB of RAM, with both a dual 1 GbE and Infiniband SDR network. |
| Scinet Tightly Coupled System (TCS) | SciNet Consortium University of Toronto |
60 TFlops peak; 3,328 cores of IBM Power 6 (4.7
GHz); 4 GB RAM/core; 104 nodes (IBM P6-575); 4X DDR InfiniBand
interconnect; #53 on Nov 2008
TOP500 list
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