Performance
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HPC SYSTEMS The HPCC operates six computer systems as described below: “SALK” is a Cray XE6m with a total of 1280 processor cores. Salk is reserved for large parallel jobs, particularly those requiring more than 64 cores. Emphasis is on applications in the environmental sciences and astrophysics. Salk is named in honor of Dr. Jonas Salk, the developer of the first polio vaccine, and a City College alumnus. “ANDY” is an SGI cluster with 744 processor cores and 96 NVIDIA Fermi processor accelerators. Andy is for jobs using 64 cores or fewer, for jobs using the NVIDIA Fermi’s, and for Gaussian jobs. Andy is named in honor of Dr. Andrew S. Grove, a City College alumnus and one of the founders of the Intel Corporation. “BOB” is a Dell cluster with 232 processor cores. Bob is for jobs using 64 cores or fewer, and parallel Matlab jobs. Bob is named in honor of Dr. Robert E. Kahn, an alumnus of the City College, who, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol. “KARLE” is a Dell shared memory system with 24 processor cores. Karle is used for serial jobs, Matlab, SAS, parallel Mathematica, and certain ARCview jobs. Karle is named in honor of Dr. Jerome Karle, an alumnus of the City College of New York who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985. “Athena” is a Dell cluster with 344 processor cores. It is used for serial and parallel jobs. It also supports parallel Mathematica. “Zeus” is a Dell cluster with 88 processor cores. It is used for Gaussian jobs. “Neptune” is the system that is used as a gateway to the above HPCC systems. It is not used for computations. Detailed information on each of these systems is available on the CUNY HPCC wiki. |
