System overview
Description of the hardware and software for the MSHPC cluster at PDC.
Hardware
MSHPC is a distributed memory computer form Dell consisting of 16 PowerEdge 1850 servers. Each node has two 3.4 GHz "Nocona" Intel Xeon processors with EM64T extensions and 8 GB of main memory. The nodes are connected through a high performance Infiniband network.
| Intel Xeon "Nocona" Processor | |
|---|---|
| Peak 64 bit floating point performance | 6.8 GFLOP/s @ 3.4GHz |
| L1I cache | 12kB (trace cache) |
| L1D cache | 16kB |
| L1D associativity | 4 way |
| L1D cache line size | 64 bytes |
| L1D access policy | Write-Through |
| L2 cache size | 1MB |
| L2 cache associativity | 8 way |
| L2 cache line size | 64 bytes |
Software
The operating system of the MSHPC is Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008.
Application software
The MSHPC cluster has Matlab Distributed Computing Server and Comsol 4.1 installed.
Getting Started
To start using PDC's Microsoft Windows cluster MSHPC, you need to follow the instructions found
in Using MSHPC. If you want to use Matlab on MSHPC, follow the instructions in Using Matlab with Parallel Computing toolbox .
