Gamma – IMAN1-01
IMAN1 (Jordan) as supercomputing center has diversity of HPC cluster architectures (Gama, Zaina, Booster/King) which are made available for VI-SEEM project. One of them is Gamma. Gamma is Intel Xeon based hybrid CPU/GPU computing node equipped with NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU card. This computing node is used for data visualization and pattern / object detection. Mainly, this computing node is used for academic and research purposes. Technical details are given in the table below.
Administrative data
| Name | Gamma |
| Short Description | IMAN1-01 |
| Owner | SESAME |
| Country | Jordan |
Dedication to VI-SEEM
| CPU (percent) | 100% |
| Storage (percent) | 100% |
| Accelerators (percent) | 100% |
| CPU (core-hours per year) | 70,080 |
| Storage in TB | .6 |
| Accelerators (hours per year) | 21,864,960 |
Integration
| System operational since | 2013 |
| Available to the project from | M08 |
| Expected date to be phased | - |
| Interfaces | SSH, VNC |
Computational Power
| Number of servers | 1 | Interconnect type | - | Peak performance (Tflops) | - |
| Server specification | IBM M4 dx360 | Interconnect latency | - | Real performance (Tflops) | - |
| CPU per server | 2 | Interconnect bandwidth | - | Operating system | Scientific Linux |
| RAM per server | 32 GB | Local filesystem type | - | Version | 6.4 (Carbon) |
| Total number of CPU-cores | 4 | Total storage (TB) | 600 GB | Batch system/scheduler | - |
| Max number of parallel processes | 8 | Peak performance CPU (Tflops) | - | Accelerators type | Nvidia Tesla K20 |
| Number of cores | 2496 CUDA Cores | Servers equipped with accelerators | 1 | Peak performance accelerators (Tflops) | - |
| Accelerators per server | 1 | ||||