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Thunder

Thunder
File Systems
Path Capacity Type
/home
($HOME)		228 TBytesLustre
/workspace
($WORKDIR)		17.3 PBytesLustre
thunder.afrl.hpc.mil
SGI Ice X - 5.62 PFLOPS
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory Accelerator Nodes
GPU Phi
Total Nodes 16 3,216 4 178
Operating System SLES 11
Cores/Node 28 36 28 + 2 GPU
(2 x 2,880 GPU cores)		 28 + 2 Phi
(2 x 61 Phi cores)
Core Type Intel E5-2699v3 Intel E5-2697v3
+NVIDIA Tesla K40M		 Intel E5-2697v3
+Intel 7120P
Core Speed 2.3 GHz 2.6 GHz
Memory/Node 128 GBytes 768 GBytes 128 GBytes
+24 GBytes		 128 GBytes
+16 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 126 GBytes 766 GBytes 126 GBytes 126 GBytes
+15.5 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type FDR 14x InfiniBand FDR 14x InfiniBand;
Enhanced LX Hypercube

Lightning

Lightning
File Systems
Path Capacity Type
/home
($HOME)		678 TBytesLustre
/p/work1
/p/work2
($WORKDIR)		1.3 PBytesLustre
lightning.afrl.hpc.mil
Cray XC30 - 1.2 PFLOPS
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Accelerator Nodes
GPU
Total Nodes 12 2,370 32
Operating System SLES 11 Cray Linux Environment
Cores/Node 24 10 + 1 GPU
(1 x 2,880 GPU cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon E5-2697v2 Intel Xeon E5-2670v2
+NVIDIA Tesla K40
Core Speed 2.7 GHz 2.5 GHz
Memory/Node 256 GBytes 64 GBytes 32 GBytes
+12 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 240 GBytes 63 GBytes 30 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Ethernet Cray Aries

Spirit

Spirit
File Systems
Path Capacity Type
/home
($HOME)		1.2 PBytesLustre
/workspace
($WORKDIR)		1.2 PBytesLustre
spirit.afrl.hpc.mil
SGI Ice X - 1.5 PFLOPS
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Total Nodes 8 4,590
Operating System RHEL 6
Cores/Node 16
Core Type Intel E5 Sandy Bridge
Core Speed 2.6 GHz
Memory/Node 64 GBytes 32 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 62 GBytes 29 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type FDR 14x InfiniBand FDR 14x InfiniBand;
Enhanced LX Hypercube

Utility Server

Utility Server
File Systems
Path Capacity Type
/us/work/200 TBytesPanFS
/u/home20 TBytesPanFS
/p/cwfs800 TBytesPanFS
us.afrl.hpc.mil
Appro Xtreme-X Series - 27 TFLOPS
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Total Nodes 2 44
Operating System RHEL
Cores/Node 16
Core Type AMD Opteron 6134 Magny-Cours (x2)
Core Speed 2.3 GHz
GPU Type N/A
Memory/Node 64 GBytes 128 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 62 GBytes 126 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type QDR InfiniBand
Graphics Nodes Large Memory Nodes
Total Nodes 22 22
Operating System RHEL RHEL
Cores/Node 16 32
Core Type AMD Opteron 6134 Magny-Cours (x2) AMD Opteron 6134 Magny-Cours (x4)
Core Speed 2.3 GHz 2.3 GHz
GPU Type NVIDIA Tesla M2050 N/A
Memory/Node 128 GBytes 256 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 126 GBytes 250 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.		 Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type QDR InfiniBand QDR InfiniBand

Predator

Predator
File Systems on Predator
Path Capacity Type
/home
($HOME)		88 TBytes
(shared
across
both
partitions)		XFS
/workspace
($WORKDIR)		XFS
predator.afrl.hpc.mil
SGI UV
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Total Nodes 1 1
Operating System RHEL 6 RHEL 6
Cores/Node 8 1004
Core Type Intel E5 Sandy Bridge Intel E5 Sandy Bridge
Core Speed 2.7 GHz 2.7 GHz
Memory/Core 4 GBytes 4 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Core 3.5 GBytes 3.5 GBytes
Memory Model Shared Shared
Interconnect Type Numalink v6 Numalink v6

Talon

File Systems on Talon
Path Capacity Type
/home
($HOME)		29 TBytes
(shared
across
both
partitions)		Panasas
/workspace
($WORKDIR)		Panasas
talon.afrl.hpc.mil
Aspen Systems Intel - 1.07 TFLOPS
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Total Nodes 6 12
Operating System CENTOS 5 CENTOS 5
Cores/Node 8 8
Core Type Intel Nehalem-EP Intel Nehalem-EP
Core Speed 2.8 GHz 2.8 GHz
Memory/Node 48 GBytes* 24 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 48 GBytes* 24 GBytes
Memory Model Distributed Distributed
Interconnect Type DDR IB DDR IB
*talon1 and talon6 have only 24 GBytes of memory.

Lancer

File Systems on Lancer
Path Capacity Type
/home
($HOME)		1.2 PBytesLustre
/workspace
($WORKDIR)		1.2 PBytesLustre
lancer.afrl.hpc.mil
Appro GreenBlade - 53.25 TFLOPS
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Total Nodes 2 160
Operating System RHEL 6 RHEL 6
Virtualization/Hypervisor n/a ScaleMP vSMP Foundation
Cores/Node 16 16
Core Type Intel Xeon E5-2670
Sandy Bridge		 Intel Xeon E5-2670
Sandy Bridge
Core Speed 2.6 GHz 2.6 GHz
Memory/Node 64 GBytes 128 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 62 GBytes 30 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Virtual Machine 1, 3, & 4 Virtual Machine 2
Compute Nodes Compute Nodes
Total Nodes 32 64
Total Cores 512 1024
Total Memory 4 TBytes 8 TBytes
Total Accessible Memory 3.3 TBytes 6.5 TBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 6.6 GBytes 6.6 GBytes