System Hardware Specifications
The AU HPC System provides high-speed parallel/distributed data processing and research-dedicated storage with high input-output capabilities. Hardware includes a head node (Dell R710); blade chassis (Dell M1000E: PowerEdge M610 Blade Server); 15 blades each housing 2 Intel hexacore X5650 processors (12 cores each), 24 GB of memory, and a 160 GB SATA hard drive; one node with an Nvidia graphics processing unit (Tesla 2050); Infiniband interconnect; 25 TB 5-node Isilon IQ5400S Network Attached Storage cluster.
Results of LINPACK Benchmarking
| T/V | N | NB | P | Q | Time | Gflops |
| WR03R2R4 | 200000 | 240 | 12 | 15 | 3165.20 | 1.685e+03 |
| ||Ax-b||_oo/(eps*(||A||_oo*||x||_oo+||b||_oo)*N)= 0.0017584 ...... PASSED | ||||||
| Finished 1 tests with the following results: 1 tests completed and passed residual checks, 0 tests completed and failed residual checks, 0 tests skipped because of illegal input values. |
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| End of Tests. |
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| Rpeak (theoretical) (180 cores @ 10.664 Gf per core) = 1919.52 Gf Rmax (actual) = 1685 Gf (87.78% efficiency) |
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