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Technical Specifications

Blade Servers Architecture (Hybrid) – NeXtScale nx360 M5

Master Node -1

Compute Nodes – 8

Storage Node – 1, 24TB ( RAID 5/ SAS)

Nos of Cores per node = 2* 8

Total cores 16*10= 160

Processor -Intel Xeon  E5-2630 v3 8C 2.4GHz 20MB 1866MHz 85W

Network (Cluster, Mgmt) – 10Gb, 1Gb

Memory –  64 GB , 4GB/Core

Cluster Memory = 640GB

Operating System – Red Hat 6.7

Standard Linux Libraries. (gcc , fortran , python etc)

Cluster Manager – XCAT

Node Types

  • Master Node Stateful
  • Storage Node Stateful
  • Compute Nodes Stateless

System Services (DNS/DHCP/NFS)

File System – NFS

Resource Manager / Scheduler

  • TORQUE / MOAB