Cluster1
Cluster1 - 2004-2010
Cluster1 was our first large scale production Linux cluster. It was a ClusterVision installation commissioned in spring 2005. Between April 2004 and March 2006, the project was funded as part of the university's HEFCE SRIF-2 (Research Infrastructure Funding) project.
The system comprised:
- Master node which controlled management of the cluster
- Two fileserver nodes connected to the UEA Storage Area Network.
- Gigabit ethernet backbone, comprising 4 Foundary switches, used for file transfer.
- Myrinet low-latency backbone was connected to 32 of the nodes highly optimised for parallel computing.
The Myrinet portion was upgraded to 64 nodes in summer 2008.
Specification
- 104 AMD Opteron 246 (2.0Ghz) dual processor slave nodes for 64 bit applications 3Gb RAM per node
- 64 AMD Opteron 2212 (2.0Ghz) dual-core dual processor nodes for 64 bit applications with Myrinet interconnect, 4 Gb RAM memory per node.
- a small number of Intel Xeon (2.4Ghz) dual processor slave nodes for 32 bit applications (migrated from beo1)
- Gigabit Ethernet backbone consisting of 4 Foundry FastIron Edge X448 48-port switches
- 64 node Myrinet low-latency backbone for parallel/shared memory applications
- 4 AMD Opteron 2212 (2.0Ghz) dual-core dual processor login nodes.
- Single AMD Opteron 246 (2.0Ghz) dual processor master node used for slave image deployment, cluster-wide management and job scheduling
- 2 AMD Opteron 246 (2.0Ghz) dual processor fileserver nodes connected to the UEA Storage Area Network
- Suse 9.1
- Sun Grid Engine (SGE) v6.0u7 queueing system
Cluster1 was decommissioned in 2010.