+ NASA Home + Ames Home + Sitemap + Staff Directory +Home HIGH END SYSTEMS + Pleiades + Columbia + Schirra + RTJones SGI ICE - RTJONES CLUSTER This SGI supercomputer is one of multiple systems selected to evaluate next-generation next-generation technology to meet NASA's future supercomputing requirements. The system is named "RTJones" to honor the late aerodynamics pioneer Robert Thomas (R.T.) Jones. RTJones System Facts Manufacturer - SGI System Architecture 9 Cabinets - 8 compute (512 cores each), 1 service 43.5 Tflop/s cluster Nodes 2 four-core processors per node Xeon X5355 processors Processor speed - 2.66GHz Cache - 4MB per processor Total cores: 4096 Subsystem 8 front-end nodes Memory Type - DDR2 FB-DIMMs 1GB per core, 8GB per node Total Memory - 4 TB Interconnects Intranode - InfiniBand, 512 compute nodes Two independent InfiniBand fabrics running at 4x DDR Gigabit Ethernet management network Storage Lustre cluster-wide filesystem 10 Lustre filesystem server nodes DDN RAID - 240 TB Operating Environment Operating system - SUSE Linux Job Scheduler - PBS Compilers - C,Intel Fortran, SGI MPI ADDITIONAL INFORMATION + Getting an account at NAS + SGI ICE Systems Documentation + R.T. Jones Biography + Feedback + Site Help + NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and Accessibility Certification Editor: Jill Dunbar Webmaster: John Hardman NASA Official: Rupak Biswas + Contact NAS Last Updated: August 26, 2008