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NEC Nehalem Cluster

 

System is in production mode

 

This Cluster builds together with the NEC SX-9 a heterogenous computing platform.

Technical description

Peak Performance 62 TFlops
Number of Nodes 700 Dual Sockel Quad Core
Processor Intel Xeon (X5560) Nehalem @ 2.8 GHz, 8MB Cache
Memory/node 12 GB
Disk 80 TB shared scratch (lustre)
Node-node interconnect infiniband, GigE
accelerators 32 nodes provide Nvidia Tesla S1070 GPGPU
graphical pre- and post processing nodes 6 nodes provide Nvidia Quadro 5800FX graphics card

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