The main computing resource for the
laboratory consists in a Beowulf cluster
(maestro) comprising one master
node and nine compute nodes. All nodes
(master and compute) have the same basic
configuration consisting of two 3.06GHz
Intel Xeon processors mounted on an Intel
SE7505VB2 motherboard, 2GB RAM, 1.44MB
FDD and CDROM drive. In addition, the
master node is equipped with two 36GB
SCSI HDD set up in RAID 1 configuration
(bootable) and eight 250GB SATA HDD set
up in RAID 1 configuration (local
storage) and housed in a Chenbro RM311 3U
rackmounted chassis. The compute nodes
are each equipped with one 40GB IDE HDD
and housed in an AIC RMC2L-XP 2U
rackmounted chassis. The following
supporting hardware components are also
part of the cluster: Vantage 45U rack;
two APC 3000VA rackmounted UPS; Zonet 8
Port KVM rackmounted switch; TRENDnet 16
Port 10/100/1000Mbps rackmounted
unmanaged network switch.
The cluster is setup and managed using
NPACI - Rocks version
4.0.0 (Whitney) which is based on
CentOS 4 operating system.
Also installed as part of the Rocks
distribution is the SGE roll which
provides the Sun Grid Engine job
queuing system for the cluster.
Additional software resources available
on the master node include Matlab, Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95
software tools and the Intel Fortran and C++
compilers.
In addition to their personnal computers,
the personnel of the laboratory also have
access to additional workstations used
either for data processing and
vizualization and/or storage and backup.
These include:
