FORM FOR LOGIN IN HPC FACILITY

Computer Centre, IIT Kanpur

Please fill out this form and submit it at the CC office. You must already have a shell account
to apply for this facility. Please fill entries legibly and in BLOCK LETTERS. Students can
have this facility for free but the recommendation of your thesis guide is necessary. In case
you are a project employee then a shell account, recommendation by your PI and also the
consent of Head CC are must. Charges for this account may have to be paid separately by
project employees. Mass course enrollment is not covered by this form. It is mandatory to
acknowledge the HPC2010 facility at CC funded by DST and IIT Kanpur on any publication
based on the results of the same.

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Login required for: HPC 2013 HPC2010

(Please tick . For details on HPC2013 and HPC2010 see the next sheet)

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HPC2013
HPC2013 is a machine is a 781 node machine from which 768 nodes are serving as compute node.This machine
had a rank of 130 in the top 500 list published www.top500.org in November 2013. In the initial ratings it had a
Rpeak of 307.2 Terra-Flops and Rmax of 282.6 Terra-Flops. Extensive testing of this machine was carried out
and we were able to achieve an efficiency of 96% on the Linpack benchmark. The new rated Rmax would be
around 292.9 Terra-Flops It is based on Intel Xeon E5-2670V 2.5 GHz 2 CPU-20-core-IvyBridge on HP-
Proliant-SL-230s-Gen8 servers with 128GB of RAM per node E5-2670v2x10 core2.5 GHz. The nodes are
connected by Mellanox FDR Infiniband chasis based switches that can provide 56Gbps of throughput. It also has
500 Terra-Bytes of storage with an aggregate performance of around 23GBps on write and 15 GBps on read.
It is divided into a home(13/7 w/r GBps) and a scratch(22/12 w/r GBps) file system. The home file system is
around 169 Terra-Bytes and the scratch file system is around 332 Terra-Bytes. It has PBS Pro Scheduler from
Altair and is divided into queues as follows:
queue nodes Min-Max Min-Max Wall time
nodes cores
large 362 6-32 120-640 96 hours
medium 256 2-6 40-120 96 hours
small 96 1-2 20-40 120 hours
mini 32 1-2 20-40 2 hours
hyperthread 16 1-2 40-80 120 hours
workq 4 1 1-20 24 hours 2 hrs cpu
highmem 5 1-1 2-20 120 hours
test 2 NA NA NA

HPC2010
HPC2010 is a machine is a 376 node machine from which 368 nodes are serving as compute node.This
machine had a rank of 369 in the top 500 list published www.top500.org in June 2010. In the initial ratings it
had a Rpeak of 34.05 Terra-Flops and Rmax of 29.01 Terra-Flops. It is based on Intel Xeon X5570 2.93 GHz 2
CPU-8-core-Nehelam on HP-Proliant-BL-280c-Gen6 servers with 48 GB of RAM per node. The nodes are
connected by Qlogic QDR Infiniband federated switches that can provide 40Gbps of throughput. It also has
100 Terra-Bytes of storage with an aggregate performance of around 5GBps on write performance. It is divided
into a home(1.7/1.3 w/r GBps) and a scratch(3.4/2.4 w/r GBps) file system. The home file system is around 60
Terra-Bytes and the scratch file system is around 40 Terra-Bytes. It has PBS Pro Scheduler from Altair and is
divided into queues as follows:

queue nodes Min-Max Min-Max Wall time

nodes cores
large 184 16-32 128-256 72 hours
medium 100 4-12 32-96 96 hours
small 59 1-4 2-32 120 hours
mini 32 1-2 20-40 2 hours
workq 6 1 1-6 24 hours 2 hrs cpu
test 3 NA NA NA

This cluster was later augment with 96 nodes of Intel Xeon E-52670 2.6 GHz 2 CPU-16-core-Sandy- Bridge on
HP-Proliant-SL-230s-Gen8 servers with 64 GB of RAM per node that add an additional theoretical 31 Terra-
Flops to the above 2010 cluster. PBS Pro is the scheduler of choice. Though it has FDR Infinband cards it is
connected to the QDR Infiniband fabric seamlessly.

queue nodes Min-Max Min-Max Wall time

nodes cores
mediumsb 47 2-6 32-96 96 hours
smallsb 47 1-2 2-32 120 hours
workqsb 1 1 1-1 24 hours 2 hours cpu
testsb 1 NA NA NA