Ipazia Compute Cluster@Empa Duebendorf, Switzerland
Description
Ipazia is currently made up of the following hardware:
Infrastructure
- Racks & cooling:
- Water cooled racks from Knuerr using the CoolLoop technology. The project has been realized by the Empa logistics and infrastructure department.
Switches, front-end node, compute nodes
This hardware comes from Dell- Front end node
- Poweredge 2900
- 2 x Intel dual core Woodcrest@2.33 Ghz
- 4 GB RAM
- 1.5 TB RAID 5
- Gigabit section
- 20 x Poweredge 1950
- 2 x Intel dual core Woodcrest @2.33 Ghz
- 8 GB RAM
- 73 GB local hard disk 10k
- 2 x Gigabit NIC
- 10 x Poweredge 1950
- 2 x Intel dual core Woodcrest @3.00 Ghz
- 8 or 16 GB RAM
- 73 GB local hard disk 10k
- 2 x Gigabit NIC
- 2 x Powerconnect 2748 gigabit switch
- Infiniband section
- M1000e Blade Enclosure
- 16 x Poweredge M605 Blade
- 2 x AMD Opteron quad core 2356 2.3 Ghz 95 W
- 32 GB
- InfiniBand daughter card
- InfiniBand SFS7000 Switch for Single Switch Config
Storage and Backup
- Sun Sunfire X4500
- 24 TB storage in 48 redundant 500 GB hard drives
- About 20 TB effective disc space accessible from all nodes
- 4xGbit NIC
- Backup server from Synology