Resources

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors and partners, members of the Supercomputing Laboratory have access to the following high performance computing resources:

Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Jaguar has been ranked No. 1 in the 34th TOP500 Supercomputer List)
224,256 cores in 18,688 nodes Each node has two Opteron 2435 "Istanbul" processors linked with dual HyperTransport connections Each processor has six cores with a clock rate of 2600 MHz supporting 4 floating-point operations per clock period per core 299 TB of memory Each node is a dual-socket, twelve-core node with 16 gigabytes of shared memory Each processor has directly attached 8 gigabytes of DDR2-800 memory 2331 Teraflops (1759 Teraflops on Linkpack) Each node has a peak processing performance of 124.8 gigaflops Each core has a peak processing performance of 10.4 gigaflops 3D torus interconnection network
Kraken at the University of Tennessee (Kraken has been ranked No. 3 in the 34th TOP500 Supercomputer List)
	99,072 cores in 8,256 nodes Each node has two Opteron 2435 "Istanbul" processors linked with dual HyperTransport connections Each processor has six cores with a clock rate of 2600 MHz supporting 4 floating-point operations per clock period per core 129 TB of memory Each node is a dual-socket, twelve-core node with 16 gigabytes of shared memory Each processor has directly attached 8 gigabytes of DDR2-800 memory 1028.85 Teraflops (831.7 Teraflops on Linkpack) Each node has a peak processing performance of 124.8 gigaflops Each core has a peak processing performance of 10.4 gigaflops 3D torus interconnection network
Ranger at the University of Texas (Ranger has been ranked No. 9 in the 34th TOP500 Supercomputer List)
62,976 cores in 3,936 nodes Each node has four AMD Opteron Quad-Core 64-bit processors (16 cores in all) on a single board, as an SMP unit Each processor has four cores with a clock rate of 2300 MHz supporting 4 floating-point operations per clock period per core 123 TB of memory Each node is a 16-core SMP uint with 32 GB of memory 579 Teraflops (433.2 Teraflops on Linkpack) Each node has a peak processing performance of 147.2 gigaflops Each core has a peak processing performance of 9.2 gigaflops The interconnect topology is a 7-stage, full-CLOS fat tree with two large Sun InfiniBand Datacenter switches at the core of the fabric (each switch can support up to a maximum of 3,456 SDR InfiniBand ports)
Ra at Colorado School of Mines (Ra has been ranked No. 134 in the 31st TOP500 Supercomputer List)
	2,144 cores in 268 nodes 256 nodes with two 512 Clovertown E5355 quad-core processor at a clock rate of 2670 MHz supporting 4 floating-point operations per clock period per core 12 nodes with four 48 Xeon 7140M dual-core processor at a clock rate of 3400 MHz supporting 4 floating-point operations per clock period per core 5.6 TB of memory 16 GB memory per node for 184 nodes 32 GB memory per node for 72 nodes 23.2 Teraflops (17 Teraflops on Linkpack) Clovertown node has a peak processing performance of 85.44 gigaflops Xeon node has a peak processing performance of 108.8 gigaflops Cisco SFS 7024 IB Server Switch
Alamode Lab at Colorado School of Mines
94 cores in 24 nodes Each node has two dual-core AMD Opteron 2218 processors at a clock rate of 2600 MHz supporting 2 floating-point operations per clock period per core 192 GB of memory Each node has 8 gigabytes of memory 488.8 Gigaflops peak performance Each core has a peak processing performance of 5.2 gigaflops Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Microsoft Donated Cluster (MSC) at Colorado School of Mines
	32 cores in 16 nodes Each node has a dual-core AMD Opteron 2212 processor at a clock rate of 2000 MHz supporting 2 floating-point operations per clock period per core 128 GB of memory Each node has 8 gigabytes of memory 128 Gigaflops peak performance Each core has a peak processing performance of 4 gigaflops Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Nvidia Tesla S1070 system cuda1.mines.edu at Colorado School of Mines
This 1U rack mountable system contains 4 of the Nvidia Quadro FX 5600 GPU cards and has a peak computing performance of 4 trillion floating point operations per second, or 4 Teraflops. Each of the 4 graphics processing units (GPU) on the Tesla has 240 processing cores and 4 Gbytes of memory for a total of 960 cores and 16 Gbytes. The individual GPUs are connected to the front-end node via a PCI connector.