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• Power-8 Computing Systems
• Room Names
• Visualisation Suite
• Training Suite

For current status and system information see [Status Page|http://community.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/wiki/site/admin/status.html] .

Summary of system compute nodes:

Phase-2 Computer Systems

There is a Flash time-lapse video showing the installation during March 2014 here: http://avon.dl.ac.uk/hartree/phase2_installation.flv .

The login cluster for Iden and Napier is named Calcott.

Iden - iDataPlex and Xeon Phi Cluster (Blue Wonder Phase-2)

• 84 nodes, each node has 2 x12 core Intel Xeon processors (Ivy Bridge E5-2697v2 2.7GHz) and 64GB RAM. A total of 2,016 cores.
• Interconnect is Infiniband from Mellanox (FDR Connect-IB 56 GB/s).
• 42 of 84 have accelerators – an Intel Phi 5110P.

Napier - NextScale Cluster (Blue Wonder Phase-2)

• 360 nodes, each node has 2 x12 core Intel Xeon processors (Ivy Bridge E5-2697v2 2.7GHz) and 64GB RAM. Total of 8,640 cores.
• Interconnect is Infiniband from Mellanox (FDR Connect-IB 56 GB/s).

Scafell Pike

This was installed in the HDR in 2017. Installation included 22 racks and 80+ pallets of equipment with water and electrical hook ups.

Jade

The Joint Academic Data Science Endeavour (JADE), an NVIDIA DGX-1 system owned by the University of Oxford and run as part of a Tier-2, EPSRC-funded consortium has been installed at the Hartree Centre. We will host and support the system in partnership with Atos, who are providing the hardware. JADE will be the largest GPU facility in the UK supporting world-leading research in machine learning. For more details see: http://www.jade.ac.uk/

Big Data Systems

Dawson - X86 Cluster for Data Analytics

We have a wide range of data analytics software, for more information contact the business development team.

See separate page on Big Data.

Energy Efficient Computing Research Systems

Note, there is a separate area describing systems related to our Energy Efficient Computing Research Programme and the projects running on them: http://community.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/portal/site/eecrp .

Iden - Xeon Phi Cluster

See above.

Neale - Novel Cooling Technology

This is a novel cooling demonstrator from Insight and ClusterVision:

• 120 nodes, each node is 2 x8 core Intel Xeon (Ivy Bridge E5-2650v2. 2.6GHz), 64GB RAM, a total of 1,920 Cores.
• Interconnect of QLogic (QDR80) - verbs and dapl interface.
• 216TB of FhGFS Parallel Storage.
• Green Revolution Cooling (oil bath).

DeLorean - Data Flow Technologies

This is an FPGA system from Viglen and Maxeler.

• Five Maxeler MPC-X2000 nodes (containing in total 40 Maia dataflow engines)
• Six SuperMicro CPU nodes, to run software parts of applications, with dual Intel (Sandy Bridge E5-2650v2. 2.6GHz) CPUs and 128GB of memory.
• Panasas Activestor14 PanFS storage solution with 112TiB usable storage capacity

Ace - Low Power Processors

This is an Arm-v8 based system from Misco, OCF, IBM and ARM.

• 1,152 ARMv8 64 bit cores (96 cores per server)
• 12x ARM processor motherboards configured in an IBM NeXtScale chassis. These boards are being developed by Lenovo.

For more information on these systems go to Energy Efficient Computing Systems .

Power-8 Research Systems

Login via Fairthorpe

Panther

• 32 x 16 core Power8 @3.86 Ghz (128 threads per node)
• 4 x nVidia K80 GPUs per node
• 2 x 1 TB HDD per node
• 28 nodes have 512 GB RAM; 4 have 1 TB RAM
• 2 x IBM ESS GS4 storage arrays providing 96 x800 GB SSD. 1B (FDR) attached
• 1 x IBM FlashStorage 900 IB (QDR) attached. 57 TB usable
• 1 x IBM FlashStorage 900 IB (CAPI) attached to single host. 57 TB usable

Paragon

• IBM Power-8 cluster with NVLink targetting Hartree Centre IROR work load.
• 40 x 16 core nodes @ 4.0GHz. 4 x nVidia GPU P100-SXM2 per node. 2 x 1TB HDD and 1 x 3.2TB NVMe card per node. 35 nodes have 512GB RAM; 5 have 1TB RAM.
• 1 x E850-44E Large–Memory node with 4TB RAM 32 cores @4.2 GHz. 2 x 280GB HDD
• 2 x IBM ESS GS4 storage arrays, with a total of 192 800GB SSDs. Inifiniband (EDR) attached.
• 1 x IBM ESS GS2 storage expansion, with a total of 96 400GB SSDs. Inifiniband (EDR) attached.
• Dual Infiniband EDR fabric

Room Names

How to find your way around The Hartree Centre and how many people the rooms can accommodate:

If you would like to organise an event at the Hartree Centre such as a workshop, training course or tour then please see http://www.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/Hartree/Training+and+skills/45515.aspx where there is a link to an Event Proposal Form. Visualisation suites and Brunner-Mond can also be booked via this form or you can send an email to the Hartree Centre Service Desk at hartree@stfc.ac.uk.

A list of events can be seen on the STFC Events Booking page at: https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/

Visualisation Suite

Information to follow, work is nearing completion.

Training Suite

The training suite in the Brunner-Mond room consists of several rows of desks with a total of around 50 workstations. There are two presenters' areas with separate workstations and projectors onto wall mounted screens. This is primarily designed as an area for hands-on computer based training. There are separate facilities for seminars, lectures and workshops.

For more information, see here: http://community.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/library/content/gateway/training.html .

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