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Blueshark Supercomputer - HPC

Introduction

The Blueshark cluster at Florida Tech is a IBM iDataplex system, comprised of 63 compute nodes (Total of 1,720 processor cores and 4,397GB RAM), 11 GPU nodes, 1 storage node and 1 head node. For more information about the High Performance Computing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing. The Blueshark Cluster was funded by the National Science Foundation major Research Implementation grant.

Request Access

Faculty can request access to the Blueshark cluster by entering a support request at https://myfootprints.fit.edu.

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.

Mailing List

To join the mailing list, click Subscribe at this URL: https://lists.fit.edu/sympa/info/hpc

Hardware

Front Shot of Blueshark HPC

The configuration of each of the 50 general compute nodes is:

  • IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M3/M4
  • 2 x Hexa-Core Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz CPUs
  • 24GB of RAM
  • 250GB SATA HDD
  • 1 Gb Ethernet Interconnect

There are 11 GPU compute nodes with this configuration:

  • Dell PowerEdge C4130
  • 2 x 10 core Intel Xeon E5-2650 @ 2.30GHz
  • 131GB of RAM
  • 1TB SATA HDD
  • 4 x Nvidia Tesla K40m
  • 1 Gb Ethernet Interconnect
  • Mellanox InfiniBand Interconnect

The 13 big memory compute nodes are configuration:

  • SuperMicro 1u Servers
  • 2 x 10 core Intel Xeon E5-2650 @ 2.30GHz
  • 131GB of RAM
  • 120GB SATA HDD
  • 1 Gb Ethernet Interconnect

The storage node configuration:

  • Dell PowerEdge R630
  • Dell PowerVault MD3060
  • 60 x 4TB HDD
  • 240TB raw capacity

The head node configuration is:

  • IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M3
  • 2 x 4 Core Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz
  • 24GB of RAM
  • LSI MegaRAID SAS Controller
  • Storage Expansion Unit
  • 8 x 1 TB 7200RPM SAS Hot-Swap HDD
  • 10 GbE link to compute nodes via Chelsio T310 10GbE Adapter
  • Redundant Hot-swap Power Supplies

Other hardware resources:

  • 2 x BNT 48port 1GbE switches with dual 10GbE

Software

The HPC software environment is implemented in CentOS 7 Linux.

Software Installed:

  • ATLAS - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
  • BLAS - Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
  • Boost C++
  • CUDA - Nvidia CUDA Programming
  • DMTCP - Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing
  • Environmental Modeling System - http://strc.comet.ucar.edu/
  • Fluent
  • Gaussian - http://www.gaussian.com
  • GNU Compilers - C/C++/Fortran
  • Java
  • LAPACK - Linear Algebra Package
  • MPI - Message Passing Interface - MPICH and OpenMPI
  • NetCDF - Network Common Data Form
  • Octave - GNU Octave
  • Paraview - Data Analysis and Visualization
  • PETSc - Portable, Extensible Toolkit for
    Scientific Computation
  • Portland Group Compiler - C/C++/Fortran/MPICH
  • Python
  • SAGE Math - http://www.sagemath.org