Computing

HPC Resources

The Bluemarlin HPC Cluster at Florida Institute of Technology

Introduction

The Bluemarlin cluster at Florida Tech is a 48-node IBM system, comprised of 47 compute nodes and 1 head node. For more information about the High Performance Computing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing. The Bluemarlin Cluster was funded by the National Science Foundation major Research Implementation grant.

Request Access

Faculty can request access to the Bluemarlin cluster by entering a call ticket at http://itservices.fit.edu/support/request.

For an entire course to get access, the course instructor has to request access and provide all the TRACKS accounts needing access.

For a guest, visitor, or student to get access, they must have a faculty sponser to get access to the cluster.

Hardware

Bluemarlin. 3/9/05

The configuration of each of the 47 compute nodes is:

  • x330 series with 1 PIII processor
  • 512 MB SDRAM RDIMM2 (1GB on Myrinet nodes)
  • 18.2 GB Ultra 160 HDD

The head node configuration is:

  • 4500R series with 2 PIII processors
  • IBM 20/40 GB DDS/4 4-mm Internal Tape Drive (HH)
  • ServeRAID 4L LVD SCSI Adapter
  • ServeRAID 4H LVD SCSI Adapter
  • 512 MB 133 MHz ECC SDRAM RDIMM memory
  • 1 18.2 GB Ultra 160 HDD
  • EXP300 Storage Expansion Unit
  • 10 36.4 GB 10000rpm Ultra 160 SCSI Hot-Swap SL HDD
  • 270W Redundant Hot-swap Power Supply

Among the shared resources are:

  • 5 P96 monitors
  • 5 NetVista A20 systems
  • 6 Advanced Systems Management Adaptors
  • 1 NetBay 2x8 Console Switch

Other hardware resources:

  • 4 Equinox ELS-16 Terminal Servers (16 serial + 1 parallel port, LAT & TCP/IP)
  • 4 Equinox 10BaseT transceivers
  • 1 Cisco Catalyst 3508 XL switch
  • 3 Cisco Catalyst 3524-PWR XL switches
  • 2 Cisco Catalyst 3548 XL switches
  • 6 ShortWave GBIC
  • 1 Myricom Myrinet M3F-SW16M switch

Software

The Beowulf software environment is implemented in Red Hat Linux.

Software Installed:

  • MPI - Message Passing Interface
  • PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine
  • Portland Group Compiler - C/C++/Fortran
  • GNU Compilers - C/C++/Fortran
  • LAPACK - Linear Algebra Package
  • BLAS - Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
  • PLAPACK - Parallel LAPACK
  • SCALAPACK - Scalable LAPACK
  • ATLAS - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
  • LINDA
  • HPF (High Performance Fortran)
  • TotalView Debugger

Archive Web Site

http://my.fit.edu/beowulf/