Martin Head-Gordon
Group
Principle Investigator: Martin Head-Gordon
Chemical Sciences Division
and UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry
Overview
The coupled-cluster Cluster (pictured on the right) is a 42 processor Opteron
Linux cluster that began production use in
November 2004. The cluster will be used to perform electronic structure
calculations on molecular systems ranging from combustion-related
radicals to nanomaterials, as well as using it as a platform
for the development of new algorithms for such calculations.
Cluster Description
Master Server Node consisting of:
2 ea. AMD Opteron 246 2.0Ghz processors
Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard
4 x 1GB ECC Registered DDR400 RAM
40GB 7200 RPM EIDE hard disk
3Ware Escalade 9500-8 SATA RAID controller configured for RAID5
8 ea. 250GB Western Digital 7200RPM WD2500SD SATA disks
550W power supply
SuperMicro SC833 3U rackmount enclosure
21 Compute Nodes each with:
2 ea. AMD Opteron 246 2.0Ghz processors
Tyan Thunder K8SR S2881G2NR motherboard
8 x 2GB ECC Registered DDR333 RAM (2 nodes)
8 x 1GB ECC Registered DDR400 RAM (9 nodes)
4 x 1GB ECC Registered DDR400 RAM (10 nodes)
40GB 7200 RPM EIDE hard disk
3Ware Escalade 8506-4 SATA RAID controller configured for RAID0 stripe
4 ea. 250GB Western Digital 7200RPM WD2500JD SATA disks
400W power supply
Chenbro RM11704 1U rackmount enclosure
 Networks:
Netgear GS524T 24 port Gigabit switch
Netgear FS524T 24 port FastEthernet switch
Cyclades ACS-32 32 port terminal server
Software
Centos 3.3 x86-64 with 2.6 kernel
Warewulf 2.2
Sun Grid Engine 5.3 patched for x86-64
Portland Group Compiler 5.2 for x86-64
PGI# 510151, Oct 21, 2004 thru Dec 20, 2005
Purchase Information
Vendor: Finetec Computer
LBNL Purchase Order 6715080
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