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The following summarises each of the local ACES sites. The table below has hardware summaries for each site. The four ACES sites these are:



ACES Grid hardware site by site.

2706 Gflop/s peak.

566 CPU's.

829 GB memory.

344 nodes.

Site itrda.acesgrid.org

itrda aggregate peak floating point capacity:

538 Gflop/s peak across 115 CPUs

itrda aggregate memory:

143 GB across 58 nodes.

itrda aggregate scratch storage*:

1.8 TB

12 dual processor Xeon compute nodes.

Manufactured by Dell, model number 1750.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

2GB PC3200 memory, 3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

42 dual processor Xeon compute nodes.

Manufactured by Aspen systems.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

2GB PC3200 memory, 3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

100 Mb/s ethernet interonnect.

Myrinet interconnect.

3 Itanium2 compute nodes (1+2+2 processors).

Manufactured by Dell, model number 3250.

1GHz CPU speed, peak 4.0 Gflop/s flop rate.

1+16+16GB PC2100 memory, 12.8GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

1 dual processor Xeon head node.

Manufactured by Dell, model number 2650.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

4GB PC3200 memory, 3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

1 SCSI storage array.

Manufactured by Dell, model number S220

1.8TB capacity.

NFS exported over gigabit ethernet.

Site geo.acesgrid.org

geo aggregate peak floating point capacity.

1018 Gflop/s peak across 209 CPU's

geo aggregate memory:

430 GB across 132 nodes.

geo aggregate scratch storage*:

1.3 TB

66 dual processor Xeon nodes.

Manufactured by Dell, model number 1750.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8Gflop/s flop rate.

4GB PC3200, 3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

4 dual processor Xeon nodes.

Manufactured by Dell, model number 1750.

2.8GHz CPU speed, peak 5.6Gflop/s flop rate.

2GB PC3200, 3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

44 single processor Pentium 4 nodes.

In house assembly ASUS P4P800 motherboard,

2.8GHz CPU speed, peak 5.6Gflop/s flop rate.

1GB PC3200, 6.4GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

3 Itanium2 compute nodes (1+2+2 processors).

Manufactured by Dell, model number 3250.

1GHz CPU speed, peak 4.0 Gflop/s flop rate.

1+16+16GB PC2100 memory, 12.8GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

1 SCSI storage array.

Manufactured by Dell, model number S220

1.8TB capacity.

NFS exported over gigabit ethernet.

1 dual processor Xeon head node.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

4GB PC3200,3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

1 Itanium2 Altix compute node (16 processors)

Manufactured by SGI, model number Altix 350.

1GHz CPU speed, peak 4.0 Gflop/s flop rate.

80GB PC2100 memory, 12.8GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

Site ao.acesgrid.org

ao aggregate peak floating point capacity.

967 Gflop/s peak across 203 CPU's

ao aggregate memory:

217 GB across 134 nodes.

ao aggregate scratch storage*:

N/A

62 dual processor Xeon nodes.

Manufactured by Dell, model number 1750.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

2GB PC3200,3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

4 dual processor Xeon nodes.

Manufactured by Dell, model number 1750.

2.8GHz CPU speed, peak 5.6 Gflop/s flop rate.

2GB PC3200,3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

64 single processor Pentium 4 compute nodes.

In house assembly – ASUS P4P800 motherboard.

32 x 2.26GHz CPU speed, peak 4.5 Gflop/s flop rate.

512MB 800MHz RDRAM, 6.4 GB/s memory bandwidth.

32 x 2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8Gflop/s.

1GB dual-channel DDR memory, 6.4GB/s memory bandwidth.

Myrinet interconnect.

3 Itanium2 compute nodes (1+2+2 processors).

Manufactured by Dell, model number 3250.

1GHz CPU speed, peak 4.0 Gflop/s flop rate.

1+16+16GB PC2100 memory, 12.8GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

1 dual processor Xeon head node.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

4GB PC3200,3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

Site cs.acesgrid.org (beowulf.csail.mit.edu)


cs aggregate peak floating point capacity:

183 Gflop/s peak across 39 CPU's

cs aggregate memory:

39 GB across 20 nodes.

cs aggregate scratch storage*:

N/A

16 dual processor Xeon compute nodes.

Manufactured by Dell, model number 1750.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

2GB PC3200,3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

3 Itanium2 compute nodes (1+2+2 processors).

Manufactured by Dell, model number 3250.

1GHz CPU speed, peak 4.0 Gflop/s flop rate.

1+16+16GB PC2100 memory, 12.8GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.

1 dual processor Xeon head node.

2.4GHz CPU speed, peak 4.8 Gflop/s flop rate.

4GB PC3200,3.2GB/s peak memory bandwidth.

Gigabit ethernet interconnect.



*Individual sites also have permanent, backed-up storage associated with particular user groups.