HPC Systems
IBM p5-575 Cluster
| System Name: | Hydra |  |
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| Host Names: | hydra.tamu.edu hydra2.tamu.edu |
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| Operating System: | AIX 5.3 | |
| Number of Nodes: | 52 | |
| Number of Processing Cores: | 832 | |
| Interconnect Type: | 2-plane HPS (IBM's High Performance Switch) | |
| Total Memory: | 1,632 GB | |
| Peak Performance: | 6.3 TFlops | |
| Total Disk: | 20 TB by a DDN S2A9550 RAID Array | |
| File System: | GPFS | |
| Batch Facility: | Load Leveler | |
| Production Date: | March 2007 |
Hydra is a high-performance "IBM Cluster 1600", based on IBM's Power5+ processor. The cluster consists of 52 p5-575 nodes, each having 16 Power5+ processors running at 1.9GHz. Forty-nine nodes have 32 GBytes of DDR2 DRAM and three other nodes have 64 GBytes of DDR2 DRAM. A p5-575 node, is a high-performance, shared-memory multi-processor (SMP), running the 64-bit version of AIX 5L (5.3) as a single system image.
For more technical information, click here. Get more information about using Hydra in the User Guide for Hydra.