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Revision as of 15:17, 15 December 2009
Damascus is the working name for the Earlham Computer Science Department's upcoming cluster computer.
At the moment Damascus exists only as a $40,000 grant and a growing list of tentative specifications:
Contents
Tentative Specifications
Budget
- $35,000 (leaving $5,000 for discretionary spending)
Nodes
- Intel Nehalem processors
- 4 core processors minimum
- Six cores still expensive
- 1.5GB RAM per core
Specialty Nodes
- Two nodes should support CUDA GPGPU
Network
- One of the following (in order of cost):
- Gigabit Ethernet fabric with switch
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric
- Infiniband
ION Computer Systems Quotation #61116
- 2 ION G10 Server with GPU: 4,972.00 each
- (2) Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® processor E5530 (2.40GHz, 8MB Cache, 5.86GT/s, 80W)
- 12GB RAM [Bank 1 of 2: (6) 2GB ECC PC3-10600 1333MHz 2rank DDR3 RDIMM Modules][Smart]
- Total memory: 12GB DDR3_1333
- Configure 1 RAID sets / arrays.
- Seagate SV35.3 250GB, 7200RPM, SATA 3Gb for SDVR 3.5“ Disk
- (1) NVidia Tesla C1060 w. 4GB DDR3
- Dual Intel Gigabit Server NICs with IOAT2 Integrated
- 7 ION G10 Server without GPU: $3,697.00 each
- (2) Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® processor E5530 (2.40GHz, 8MB Cache, 5.86GT/s, 80W)
- 12GB RAM [Bank 1 of 2: (6) 2GB ECC PC3-10600 1333MHz 2rank DDR3 RDIMM Modules][Smart]
- Total memory: 12GB DDR3_1333
- Configure 1 RAID sets / arrays.
- Seagate SV35.3 250GB, 7200RPM, SATA 3Gb for SDVR 3.5“ Disk
- Dual Intel Gigabit Server NICs with IOAT2 Integrated
- Other stuff
- scorpion: ION bootable USB Flash device for trouble shooting.
- 3 year Next Business Day response Onsite Repair Service by Source Support
- Default load for testing (Service Partition + CentOS 5.3 for Intel64)
- Price tag: $33,173.20
ION Computer Systems Quotation #61164
- ION G10 Server with GPU: $4,972.00 each
- (2) Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® processor E5530 (2.40GHz, 8MB Cache, 5.86GT/s, 80W)
- 12GB RAM [Bank 1 of 2: (6) 2GB ECC PC3-10600 1333MHz 2rank DDR3 RDIMM Modules][Smart]
- Total memory: 12GB DDR3_1333
- Configure 1 RAID sets / arrays.
- Seagate SV35.3 250GB, 7200RPM, SATA 3Gb for SDVR 3.5“ Disk
- (1) NVidia Tesla C1060 w. 4GB DDR3
- Dual Intel Gigabit Server NICs with IOAT2 Integrated
- ION T11 DualNode: $6,477.0 each
- (2x2) Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® processor E5530 (2.40GHz, 8MB Cache, 5.86GT/s, 80W)
- Total memory: 12GB DDR3_1333 per node
- No RAID, Separate disks (NO redundancy)
- Configure 1 RAID sets / arrays.
- Seagate Constellation 160GB, 7200RPM, SATA 3Gb NCQ 2.5“ Disk
- Dual Intel Gigabit Server NICs with IOAT2 Integrated
- These nodes are modular. One can be unplugged and worked on while the others remain running.
- Other stuff
- scorpion: ION bootable USB Flash device for trouble shooting.
- 3 year Next Business Day response Onsite Repair Service by Source Support
- Default load for testing (Service Partition + CentOS 5.3 for Intel64)
- Price Tag: $33,054.30
