Overview
MeSU supercomputer offers two types of resources :
- beta : a distributed-memory computer with 144 nodes,
- gamma : a group of computers equipped with GPUs.
MeSU-beta
MeSU-beta is a SGI ICE-XA system, it is a distributed cluster which offers 3456 high performance computing cores, distributed in 144 nodes of 24 cores. It is associated with a fast storage system based on a Lustre filesystem. MeSU-beta is a extremely energy efficient server, and is equipped with a water cooling distribution unit (CDU).
MeSU-beta is equipped with 144 computes blades, each of which made of one motherboard (or node), equipped with two Intel Xeon Haswell of 12 cores each, and with a local memory of 128GB. The nodes are connected by an Infiniband network, which allows for fast communication between them.
- Architecture : Intel Haswell
- Processors : 144x 2 Intel Xeon E5-2670v3 (2.7 GHz, 12 cores)
- Memory : 144x 128GB DDR4 2133Mhz
- Interconnect : Mellanox Infiniband FDR 56 Gb/s
- Lustre Storage : 170 TB
MeSU-gamma
MeSU-gamma is made of two SGI servers which offer Nvidia GPUs.
These nodes can be used for GPU-accelerated tasks (with CUDA for example) or for remote 3D visualization.
It is associated to the same fast storage system as MeSU-beta.
- Architecture : Intel Haswell
- Processors : 2x 2 Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 (2.4 GHz, 6 cores)
- GPUs : 2x Nvidia Quadro K5200 8GB
- Memory : 2x 256GB DDR4 2133Mhz
- Interconnect : Mellanox Infiniband FDR 56 Gb/s
- Lustre Storage : 170 TB
Operating System / related software
MeSU is powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 12 SP3).
The following software are also part of the system (detailed information are available on this page) :
Intel Cluster Studio | Integrated tool suite for HPC development which include compilers (C/C++/Fortran), an MPI implementation and optimized maths libraries. |
SGI MPI 1.5 | Focuses on features that accelerate applications, enable development of parallel and real-time applications, and manage system resources. |
Altair PBSPro 14.2 | HPC workload management and job scheduling solution. |
SGI Performance Suite 1.5 SGI Accelerate 1.5 |
Designed to accelerate the performance of applications on SGI systems utilizing Intel or AMD x86-64 processors. |
SGI System Management node 1.6 SGI Foundation Software 2.7 |
Suite of technical support tools and utilities that enable SGI systems to run at improved performance. |