SKIF Ural Computing Cluster

SKIF Ural Computing Cluster

Rating of the 500 most powerful computers in the world TOP500 Rating of the 50 most powerful computers in the CIS TOP50 Specifications Blade configuration Host machine configuration Infrastructure

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Computing cluster SKIF Ural was developed by “T-Platforms” for SUSU within the priority national project “Education” in 2008

Currently, this compute cluster is used only as hardware base for project “Personal virtual computer“.

Rating of the 500 most powerful computers in the world TOP500

TOP500 is a project to rank and describe the 500 most powerful publicly known computer systems in the world. The project was launched in 1993 and publishes an updated list of supercomputers twice a year. This project aims to provide a solid foundation for identifying and tracking trends in High Performance Computing. Computing cluster “SKIF Ural” with performance 12, 2 trillion operations per second ranked 282 in the 31st edition of the TOP 500 (June 2008).

Rating of the 50 most powerful computers in the CIS TOP50

In To help you get your bearings in the world of high-performance computing systems and to be able to quickly track development trends in this area, the Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Research Computing Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University in May 2004 years, with the support of the Russian company T-Platforms, we began a joint project to form a list of the 50 most powerful computers in the CIS TOP50. The list includes 50 computing systems installed in the territory of the CIS and showing the highest performance on the Linpack test by the time the list was published. Supercomputer  ” SKIF Ural” held the following positions in TOP50: Rating edition Position 3/27/2008 4 9/23/2008 8 31.03.2009 10 9/22/2009 10 30.03.2010 15 9/21/2010 20 3/29/2011 25 9/20/2011 33 3/27/2012 42 9/18/2012 45 04/02/2013 50

Specifications

Number of blades/processors/cores: 166/332/1328 Processor type: Intel Xeon E5472 (4 cores by 3.0 GHz) RAM: 1.33TB Disk storage: 49.29 TB Storage: Panasas ActiveStorage 5100 (20TB) System network type: InfiniBand (20Gbit/s, max latency 2 µs) Control (auxiliary) network type: Gigabit Ethernet Service network: SKIF ServNet Peak performance: 16 TFlops Performance on LINPACK test: 12.2 TFlops Operating system: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Windows HPC Server 2008 Uninterruptible power supply system: APC Symmetra 160 kVA

It is possible to divide the system into independent, isolated from each other computing partitions. Tamper protection, hardware monitoring and system management are included.

Blade System Blade Configuration (166 pcs. )

Processor type: Dual quad-core Intel Xeon E5472 3.0 GHz RAM: 8 GB Disk memory: 120 GB

Host machine configuration (3 pcs)

Host machine running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
	Processor type: Dual quad-core Intel Xeon X5365 3.0 GHz RAM: 16 GB Disk storage: 1.5 TB RAID array of 6 SATA2 drives
Host machine running Windows HPC Server 2008
	Processor type: Dual quad-core Intel Xeon X5365 3.0 GHz RAM: 16 GB Disk storage: 1.5 TB RAID array of 6 SATA2 drives
Host machine for resource-intensive calculations
	Processor type: Dual quad-core Intel Xeon E5430 2.66 GHz RAM: 64 GB DDR3 Disk storage: 1.2 Tb RAID array of 8 SAS drives

Infrastructure

С – cooling system modules R – racks with computer nodes U – uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) B – batteries for  ;UPS P – power distribution cabinets CDU – air humidification system AGPT – automatic gas control system firefighting