Dell Cluster
Dell Cluster (dell.cnsi.ucsb.edu)
This system is best suited for MPI jobs that don't require large shared memory. Although this cluster is shared among many users, it is not a problem to run jobs that require 32 or more nodes (up to 64 CPUs) at a time. In exceptional circumstances more of the machine may be allocated to a single researcher.
Technical Details
The Dell cluster is composed of a Dell 1750 dual CPU 3.06GHz Xeon servers and a single Dell 1750 monitoring node. The head node has 4GB RAM, 2 mirrored system disks, and a 2TB RAID array that is shared to the cluster. The 128 compute nodes have 2GB RAM each, and a Myrinet M3F-PCIXD-2 card. The nodes are interconnected using a M3-E128 Myrinet chassis fully populated with M3-SW16-8F line cards. There are two Ethernet networks, one for general TCP traffic (NFS, etc.) and one for administration.
Accessible Through the UCSB Grid
and also the UC systemwide Grid
