Parallel Hardware Infrastructure for Research and Education in Computational Electromagnetics
Abstract
For a period of approximately six months our research group (including postdocs and students involved in the computational electro-magnetics effort as well as the departmental system administrator) tin t with approximately three to four vendors per month, and had meetings to consider the various infrastructures offered. After this period a focus was developed on Intel Pentium IV Xeon based systems. Upon further consideration of the most competitive pricing quality of service and reliability the decision was reached to purchase the system front promicro systems, a vendor base based in the San Diego area. The system consists of 256 processors, arranged as a group of 128 dual Intel Pentium IV Xeon 1.7 GHz boxes, each one with 1 Gb of RAM. In addition the system has a 0.5 Tb Raid, an subsystem containing 16 boxes interconnected by an ultra-fast Myrubet interconnect, as well as Gb Ethernet in another 16 box subsystem. The system was housed in a room fully-refurbished for this purposes, with support ($80k) provided in its entirety by the Caltech provost office. In addition, the Caltech provosts office provided matching funds for the computer purchase in the amount of $120k.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA414215
Entities
People
- Oscar Bruno
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology