| Compute Blades |
IP-113 |
IP-115 |
| Processors |
• Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 series |
• Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 series |
| Memory |
• 16 DDR3 DIMM slots (8 per CPU socket)
• 4, 8, 16 and 32GB 1600 MT/s ECC Registered DIMMs |
• 16 DDR3 DIMM slots per twin blade (4 per CPU socket)
• 4, 8, 16 and 32GB 1600 MT/s ECC Registered DIMMs |
| Storage |
• Two 2.5" SATA drives (HDD or SSD) per blade |
• Two 2.5" SATA drives (HDD or SSD) per twin blade; one per logical node |
| FDR IB Mezzanine Card |
• Single Port, Dual Port or Dual Single Port |
• Dual Single Port |
| Cooling |
• Traditional Heat Sinks |
• SGI Cold Sinks |
| Topology Options |
• Single or dual plane all-to-all, fat tree, hypercube and enhanced hypercube |
• Single plane all-to-all, fat tree, hypercube and enhanced hypercube |
| Blade Enclosures |
Standard |
Premium |
| Integrated Switch |
• Single 36 port FDR IB ASIC with 18 ports external |
• Dual 36 port FDR IB ASIC with 48 ports external |
| Administrative Network |
• Dedicated GigE network (redundancy optional), chassis management controller |
• Dedicated GigE network (redundancy optional), chassis management controller |
| Racks |
D-Rack
(For IP-113 Compute Blade) |
M-Rack
(For IP-115 Compute Blade) |
| Dimensions |
• 24"W x 40"D (42U standard)
• 60.96cm x 101.6cm
• Can optionally be extended to 48U |
• 28"W x 40"D (42U standard)
• 71.12cm x 101.6cm |
| Blade Enclosure Support |
• Up to two blade enclosure pairs (72 total blade slots) |
• Up to two blade enclosure pairs (72 total blade slots) |
| Power |
• Up to 5+1 redundant 3000W power supplies per blade enclosure pair |
• Up to 11+1 redundant 3000W power supplies per blade enclosure pair |
| Cooling |
• Open-looped airflow or water (optional) |
• Closed loop airflow with warm water support capability |
| Storage |
| InfiniteStorage InfiniBand Solutions |
• High performance shared file systems
• IP over InfiniBand |
• Native InfiniBand block level access
• Native InfiniBand SAN supported with CXFS |
| System Management |
| Hierarchical System Management |
Tier 1: System Administration Controller
• One per SGI ICE system
• Provisions out software to Rack Leader Controller (RLC)
• Pulls aggregated cluster management data from RLC
• Utilizes C1104-RP7 "6017" system |
Tier 2: Rack Leader Controller
• One per two-blade enclosure pair
• Holds blade boot images
• Runs fabric management software
• Aggregates cluster management data for rack
• Utilizes C1104-RP7 "6017" system |
|
Tier 3: Chassis Management Controller
• Two or four per blade enclosure pair
• Controls master power to all compute nodes
• Monitors power and blade enclosure environment
|
Tier 4: Baseboard Management Controller
• One per compute node
• Controls board-level hardware
• Monitors compute node environment |
|
| Service Node Options |
• Login Node
• Gateway Node
• Batch Node
• Storage Node
• OSS Node
• MDS Node |
Service nodes can be optionally configured with:
• GPUs such as NVIDIA® Quadro® FX, NVIDIA® Quadro® and NVIDIA® Tesla™
• Hard Disk Drives (SAS and/or SATA)
• I/O cards (various) |
| System Software |
| Operating Systems |
• SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 11 |
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 6 |
| Cluster Solution Stack |
• SGI Foundation Software 2: Optimized drivers and system monitoring
• SGI Performance Suite optimized application performance package consisting of SGI Accelerate, SGI MPI, SGI REACT and SGI UPC |
• SGI Management Suite: Cluster management software
• Altair® PBS Professional™: Job scheduling and workload management |
| Software Development |
| Programming Languages and Debuggers |
• C & C++: Intel® C++ Compiler, GNU GCC
• Fortran: Intel® Fortran Compilers (Fortran 95), GNU GCC (Fortran77) |
• Debuggers: Intel® Debugger included with Intel® compilers, GNU GDB, Rogue Wave Software TotalView Team, Allinea DDT, Intel® Inspector XE
• Performance Analysis: Intel® VTune Amplifier XE, Intel® Trace Analyzer & Collector |
| Libraries |
• SGI MPI
• Intel® Math Kernel Library
• Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives |
• OpenMP included with Intel compilers
• Intel® Parallel Building Blocks
• Intel® MPI Library |
