Update of Storage System

• 2 NetApp 2860 (> 1PB)

First GPU Node

• 1 nodes: 2x64 core AMD Epyc 7742, 2.25 GHz, 1TByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL385 Gen10 Servers (alcc136)
  • 1 Nvidia tesla_v100s-pcie-32gb

Extra AMD Epyc Nodes

• 2 nodes: 2x32 core AMD Epyc 7452, 2.35 GHz, 512GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL385 Gen10 Servers (alcc140-141)
• 3 nodes: 2x64 core AMD Epyc 7742, 2.25 GHz, 1TByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL385 Gen10 Servers (alcc137-139)
• Networking: 25GBit/s Ethernet.

First AMD Epyc Nodes

• 2 nodes: 2x32 core AMD Epyc 7452, 2.35 GHz, 512GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL385 Gen10 Servers (alcc132-135)
• Networking: 25GBit/s Ethernet.

First Skylake Nodes

• 3 nodes: 2x18 core Intel Xeon Gold 6140 (Skylake) 2.3 GHz, 256GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL360 Gen10 Servers (alcc128,alcc130-alcc131)
• Networking: 25GBit/s Ethernet.

New Login Node

• 1 nodes: 2x18 core Intel XEON Gold 6140 (Skylake) 2.3 GHz, 384GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL360 Gen10 Servers (alcc128,alcc130-alcc131)
• Networking: 25GBit/s Ethernet.

Network Modernization

• Networking: 25GBit/s Ethernet.

Extra Broadwell Nodes

• 3 nodes: 2x14 core Intel Xeon E5-2680v4 (Broadwell) 2.4 GHz, 256GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL360 Gen9 Servers (alcc123-alcc125)
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

Extra Storage Nodes

• 2 nodes: 2x10 core Intel Xeon E5-2640v4 (Broadwell) 2.4 GHz, 128GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL360 Gen9 Servers (secondary GPFS nodes)
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

New Storage

• NetApp E2760 (276TB)
• New primary gpfs node: 2x12 core Intel Xeon E5-2650v4 (Broadwell) 2.2 GHz, 128GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL360 Gen9 Servers (primary GPFS node)
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

First Broadwell Nodes

• 9 nodes: 2x14 core Intel Xeon E5-2680v4 (Broadwell) 2.4 GHz, 256GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL360 Gen9 Servers (alcc114-alcc122)
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

First HPE Servers, First Haswell EP Nodes

• 2 nodes: 2x12 core Intel Xeon E5-2680v3 (Haswell EP) 2.6 GHz, 512GByte RAM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) DL360 Gen9 Servers (alcc109-alcc110)
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

Extra Ivy Bridge EP Nodes

• 3 nodes: 2x10 core Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge EP) 2.8 GHz, 256GByte RAM, Fujitsu Primergy RX200S8 alcc(106-108),
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

First Ivy Bridge EP Nodes

• 3 nodes: 2x10 core Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge EP) 2.8 GHz, 128GByte RAM, Fujitsu Primergy RX200S8 alcc(103-105),
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

Extension of Storage

• GPFS1 (100TB)

First Sandy Bridge EP Nodes

• 4 nodes: 2x8 core Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge EP) 2.6 GHz, 128GByte RAM, Fujitsu Primergy RX200S7 alcc(97--99,102),
• 2 nodes: 2x8 core Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge EP) 2.6 GHz, 256GByte RAM, Fujitsu Primergy RX200S7 alcc(100-101),
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

New Storage System

• Migration from Lustre file system to General Parallel Files System (GPFS) IBM (60TB)

Workload Managing System

• Migration from SGE (Sun Grid Engine) to Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management)

Additional Fujitsu Water-cooled Rack

Extra Westmere Nodes

• 14 nodes: 2x6 core Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere) 2.93 GHz Quad Core, 48GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX200S6 alcc(80-93),
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

First Westmere Nodes

• 9 nodes: 2x6 core Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere) 2.93 GHz Quad Core, 48GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX200S6 alcc(70-78),
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

First Gainestown Nodes, Konjunkturprogramm II

• 16 nodes: 2x4 core Intel Xeon X5570 (Gainestown) 2.93 GHz Quad Core, 64GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX200S5 alcc(54-69),
• Networking: Dual 1GBit/s Ethernet.

First Water-Cooled Rack

• Fujitsu Primecenter LC Rack, Cooltherm Rack

UPS (USV)

• Unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung USV-Anlage, D6306/60kVA.

Extra Compute Nodes

• 4 nodes: 2x4 core Intel Xeon E5440 (Harpertown) 2.83 GHz 32GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers RX200S4 alcc(49-52).

Extension of Data Storage System

• Sun Storage Tek,
• Parallel File System Lustre,
• 2 nodes, data storage: first x86_64 64bit 2 x Intel Xeon DP E5440 (Harpertown) 2.83 GHz 16GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers RX300S4.

Extra Compute Nodes

• 3 nodes: 2x4 core Intel Xeon E5440 (Harpertown) 2.83 GHz 12GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX200S4 (7x SFB-484, 1x WAP-Mitteln der Physik (21 00 00 99))  alcc(37-44).

RAM Upgrade

• upgrade each node to 16GB RAM.

First Harpertown Nodes

• 8 nodes: 2x4 core Intel Xeon E5440 (Harpertown) 2.83 GHz 12GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX200S4 (7x SFB-484, 1x WAP-Mitteln der Physik (21 00 00 99))  alcc(37-44).

Data Servers

• 4 nodes: x86_64 64bit 2x2 core Intel Xeon 5150 (Woodcrest) 2.66 GHz 4GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX300S3/X.

Extra Compute Nodes

• 5 extra nodes: x86_64 64bit 2x2 core Intel Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest) 3.0 GHz 16GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX200S3/X.

Beginning of cooperation between Institute for Physics and chair for "Physische Geographie und Quantitative Methode"

First x86_64 Nodes

• 12 nodes: x86_64 64bit 2x2 core Intel Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest) 3.0 GHz 12GByte RAM, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy RX200S3/X,
• Networking: 1GBit/s Ethernet.

Storage Oxygen RAID 416E

• Storage Oxygen RAID 416E, 16x 750 GB.

First x86_64 nodes

• 3 nodes: 64bit AMD 2x 2.2GHz Dual Core Opteron, 8GB RAM, DELTA Computer Products GmbH (alcc118 - alcc120).

Birth of ALCC (Augsburg Linux Compute Cluster)

The first x86 cluster in Institute for Physics

• 17 nodes: Intel 32bit Xeon (Paxville) 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM, IBM xSeries 335/345, (alcc01-alcc17),
• IBM Fast T600 Storage,
• Networking: 1GBit/s Ethernet,
• Workload managing system: Sun Grid Engine (SGE).

First Nodes Ordered including Data Servers

Preparation, Racks