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Hardware

Record here what information about FutureGrid Hardware will be important to you.

What is Dynamically Configurable vs Non-Dynamically Configurable System?

Most hardware is intended to be available in April 2010.

route in case of an NLR outage and to enable scientists to connect directly to FutureGrid resources.

System type

# CPUs

# Cores

TFLOPS

Total RAM (GB)

Secondary storage (TB)

Default local file system

Site

Dynamically configurable systems

IBM iDataPlex

256

1024

11

2048

*335

Lustre

IU

Dell PowerEdge

192

1152

12

1152

15

NFS

TACC

IBM iDataPlex

168

672

7

1344

120

GPFS

UC

IBM iDataPlex

168

672

7

2688

72

Lustre/PVFS

SDSC

Subtotal

784

3520

37

7232

542

 

 

Systems not dynamically configurable

Cray XT5m

168

672

6

1344

*335

Lustre

IU

SHMEM (TBD)

64

512

5

1024

*335

Lustre

IU

Dell PowerEdge

64

256

3

256

5

NFS

UCSB

IBM iDataPlex

64

256

3

512

5

NFS

UF

High Throughput Cluster

192

384

4

192

 

 

PU

Subtotal 

552

2080

21

3328

10

 

 

Total

1336

5600

58

10560

552

 

 

Table. High-level hardware specifications for systems to be included as part of the FutureGrid.

*Indicates shared file system.

 

IU iDataplex & Cray

 

 

 

IU Cray