{"id":60,"date":"2017-04-03T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/?p=60"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:02:15","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/2017\/04\/03\/good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The system has been ordered<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An order for the new HPC cluster has now been placed with suppliers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.co.uk\/\">OCF<\/a>.\u00a0 OCF, working in partnership with manufacturers <a href=\"http:\/\/e.huawei.com\/en\/\">Huawei,\u00a0<\/a> will provide a cluster with:<\/p>\n<p>500 TB main filestore and 20 TB filestore for home directories<\/p>\n<p>Mellanox EDR (100Gbits\/s) high-speed interconnect<\/p>\n<p>120 compute nodes, each with\u00a0two Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 22-core processors, (5280 cores in total) of which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>110 &#8216;standard&#8217; compute nodes each\u00a0have\u00a0128 GB memory and 600 GB local storage<\/li>\n<li>6 &#8216;medium memory&#8217;\u00a0nodes\u00a0each have\u00a0256 GB memory and 1.2 TB local storage<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8216;large memory&#8217; nodes\u00a0each have 512 GB memory and 8 TB local storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An additional 2 &#8216;extra large memory&#8217; nodes each\u00a0have 1.5 TB memory and\u00a09.6 TB local storage.\u00a0 These two nodes\u00a0each have\u00a0four Intel Xeon E74830 v4\u00a014-core processors\u00a0(56 cores per node).<\/p>\n<p>The cluster will run CentOS 7.\u00a0 Job scheduling and use of the cluster resources will be managed by <a href=\"https:\/\/slurm.schedmd.com\/\">SLURM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For programmers, Intel Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition, and PGI (Portland) and GNU\u00a0compilers will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>The system should be commissioned by the beginning of July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The HPC project team has been joined by a new member, Karen Bower, who has taken up the role of HPC research computing analyst.\u00a0 Karen will be working to help shape the new system into a HPC service and to\u00a0make sure that people have the tools and skills they need to use that service effectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The system has been ordered An order for the new HPC cluster has now been placed with suppliers OCF.\u00a0 OCF, working in partnership with manufacturers Huawei,\u00a0 will provide a cluster with: 500 TB main filestore and 20 TB filestore for home directories Mellanox EDR (100Gbits\/s) high-speed interconnect 120 compute nodes, each with\u00a0two Intel Xeon E5-2699 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}