Public Clusters available for all HPC@USU Users with Open Source Software

Wasatch Cluster - new September 2009

  • Funded by USDA CSREES Grant HPC Utah
  • 64 nodes
  • Two quad-core AMD processors @ 2.3 GHz
  • Infiniband interconnect
  • Eight GB memory per node

Uinta Cluster

  • Funded by Vice President for Research Brent Miller and Thomas Hauser NSF Grant
  • 62 compute nodes, Two Login nodes
  • Two dual core AMD Opteron (tm) 264 processors @ 1.8 GHz
  • Myrinet interconnect, Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet FNN
  • Four Gbyte of memory per node, 256GB total

Login Cluster

  • Funded by HPC@USU for short compilation and integration projects
  • 3.00 GHz Intel Pentium
  • Four nodes, Two CPUs per node, Eight total nodes
  • Gigabit Ethernet interconnect
  • Two GB per node, 8 GB total

Private Clusters 

CASS - Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences www.usu.edu/cass/

Volvox

  • Funded by USU Biology Professor Paul Cliften www.biology.usu.edu/htm/our-people/faculty/memberID=3070
  • Architecture: Intel XEON
  • Four Compute nodes, One Login node
  • Two CPUs per node, 10 total
  • RAM (Node/Total): 4GB RAM per compute node/6GB login node, 22GB total RAM
  • Gigabit Ethernet Interconnect:

Retired Clusters

Faust 

  • Funded by Thomas Hauser
  • Processor donated by AMD
  • Memory donated by Micron Technologies
  • Purchased as parts
  • Assembled by USU MAE undergrad and graduate students
  • AMD Athlon XP architecture
  • 64 Compute nodes; One Login node
  • One CPU per node, 65 total
  • 256MB RAM per node, 16GB total RAM
  • Fast Ethernet, Fast Ethernet FNN Interconnect

Edna 

  • Funded by Thomas Hauser
  • AMD Opteron architecture
  • Eight Compute nodes, One Login node
  • Two CPUs per node, 18 CPUs total
  • Two GB RAM per node, 18GB RAM total
  • Gigabit Ethernet interconnect

Flame 

  • Funded by USU MAE Professor Robert E. Spall www.neng.usu.edu/mae/faculty/bspall/
  • AMD Athlon XP architecture
  • Eight Compute nodes, 1 Login node
  • One CPU per node, Nine CPUs total
  • 256MB RAM per node, 2.25GB RAM total
  • Fast Ethernet interconnect