{"id":32,"date":"2016-03-11T19:57:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:23:14","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"High Performance Computing (HPC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HPC plays an important role in the field of <a title=\"Computational science\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computational_science\">computational science<\/a>, and are used for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields, including <a title=\"Quantum mechanics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_mechanics\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, <a title=\"Weather forecasting\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weather_forecasting\">weather forecasting<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Climate research\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_research\">climate research<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Oil and gas exploration\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oil_and_gas_exploration\">oil and gas exploration<\/a>, <a title=\"Computational chemistry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computational_chemistry\">molecular modeling<\/a> (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Macromolecules\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macromolecules\">macromolecules<\/a>, polymers, and crystals), and physical simulations (such as simulations of the early moments of the universe, airplane and spacecraft aerodynamics, the detonation of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Nuclear weapons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons\">nuclear weapons<\/a>, and <a title=\"Nuclear fusion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_fusion\">nuclear fusion<\/a>). Throughout their history, they have been essential in the field of <a title=\"Cryptanalysis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cryptanalysis\">cryptanalysis<\/a>. Read more at <sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supercomputer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supercomputer<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-119 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender1\" width=\"252\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/FullSizeRender1-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><strong>SABER1<\/strong> is the first High Performance Cluster (HPC)\u00a0 at University of San Diego. Deployed in the year 2015, SABER1 has 6TFLOPS of computational power, 640GB of Cluster Memory and 25 TB of Storage.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>As of 2\/4\/2017<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>SABER1<\/strong>(<strong>below with 18 nodes)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160929_135905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-189\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160929_135905-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160929_135905-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160929_135905-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160929_135905-600x1067.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160929_135905-624x1109.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160929_135905.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Technical Specifications<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saber1\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Blade Servers Architecture (Hybrid)<\/b> \u2013 NeXtScale nx360 M5<\/li>\n<li><b>Master Node <\/b>-1<\/li>\n<li><b>Compute Nodes <\/b>\u2013 17<\/li>\n<li><b>Storage Node <\/b>\u2013 1 @ 24TB ( RAID 5\/ SAS)<\/li>\n<li><b>Nos of <\/b><b>Cores per node <\/b>= 2*8 = 16<\/li>\n<li><b>Total cores \u00a0<\/b>= (16 cores per nodes) * (18 total nodes) = 288<\/li>\n<li><b>Processor<\/b> \u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/ark.intel.com\/products\/83356\/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2630-v3-20M-Cache-2_40-GHz\">Intel Xeon\u00a0 E5-2630 v3 8C 2.4GHz 20MB 1866MHz 85W<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Network<\/b> (Cluster, Mgmt) \u2013 10Gb, 1Gb<\/li>\n<li><b>Memory<\/b> \u2013\u00a0 64 GB , 4GB\/Core<\/li>\n<li><b>Cluster Memory <\/b>= 1,088GB<\/li>\n<li><b>Operating System \u2013 <\/b>Red Hat 6.7<\/li>\n<li><b>Standard Linux Libraries<\/b>. (gcc , fortran , python etc)<\/li>\n<li><b>Cluster Manager \u2013 <\/b>XCAT<\/li>\n<li><b>Node Types<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>Master Node <\/i><b>\u2013 <\/b>Stateful<\/li>\n<li><i>Storage Node <\/i><b>\u2013 <\/b>Stateful<\/li>\n<li><i>Compute Nodes <\/i><b>\u2013 <\/b>Stateless<\/li>\n<li><b>System Services <\/b>(DNS\/DHCP\/NFS)<\/li>\n<li><b>File System <\/b>\u2013 NFS<\/li>\n<li><b>Resource Manager \/ Scheduler<\/b><\/li>\n<li>TORQUE \/ MOAB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPC plays an important role in the field of computational science, and are used for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields, including quantum mechanics, weather forecasting,&#8230;<span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/hpc\/faq\/\">Read More >><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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