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hmeij [Ideas] 		cluster:133 [2015/03/18 14:26] (current)
hmeij [High Core Count - Low Memory Footprint]
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 We're on the cusp of a new era! We're on the cusp of a new era!
  
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 +Other solutions than the one described below
 +
 +  * Amax 4U/288 cores [[http://www.amax.com/hpc/product.asp?value=High%20Density%20/%20Performance]]
 +  * Microway 2U/144 cores [[http://www.microway.com/products/hpc-clusters/high-performance-computing-with-intel-xeon-hpc-clusters/]]
 ==== Ideas ==== ==== Ideas ====
  
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 [[http://www.supermicro.com/products/MicroBlade/|MicroBlade!]] 896 cores in 6U. Ok then. [[http://www.supermicro.com/products/MicroBlade/|MicroBlade!]] 896 cores in 6U. Ok then.
-  * 28 blades, 4 nodes per blade, each node with+  * 28 blades, 112 nodes, 4 nodes per blade, each node with
     * 1x Atom C2750 8 core 2.4 Ghz chip     * 1x Atom C2750 8 core 2.4 Ghz chip
-    * up 32 GB ram (4 GB per core, way above what's needed+    * up 32 GB ram (4 GB per core, way above what's needed)
     * 1x 2.5" disk     * 1x 2.5" disk
   * Virtual Media Over LAN (Virtual USB Floppy / CD and Drive Redirection)   * Virtual Media Over LAN (Virtual USB Floppy / CD and Drive Redirection)
   * Do these PXE boot? How to get OS on drives?   * Do these PXE boot? How to get OS on drives?
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 +  * Other thoughts
 +    * With that many nodes, /home would probably not be mounted
 +    * So users would have to stage job data in /localscratch/JOBPID probably
 +    * ... via scp from a target host
 +
 +
  
 ==== Slurm ==== ==== Slurm ====
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 And then we need something that can handle ten of thousand of jobs if we acquire such a dense core platform. And then we need something that can handle ten of thousand of jobs if we acquire such a dense core platform.
  
-Enter [[https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/|Slurm]], which according to web site, " can sustain a throughput rate of over 120,000 jobs per hour". +Enter [[https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/|Slurm]], which according to their web site, "can sustain a throughput rate of over 120,000 jobs per hour". 
  
 Now we're talking. Now we're talking.
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 +Notes on Slurm are [[cluster:134|High Core Count - Low Memory Footprint]]
  
 ==== Problem ==== ==== Problem ====
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