IMAN1-Booster/King – Booster (IMAN1-03-PS3), King (IMAN1-04-PS3)
Both of booster (IMAN1-03-PS3) and King (IMAN1-04-PS3) Clusters are HPC cluster based on the IBM CELL Processor 8 C SPEs + 1 PPE. Booster cluster is a small scale cluster consisted of five PlayStations (PS3) used to run pilot projects and to make prove of concept of code porting on the IBM CELL Processor computing architecture. However, the successful jobs on booster cluster are moved to the large-scale cluster King (IMAN1-04-PS3), which is consisted of 250 PlayStation, more technical information is provided in the table below.
Administrative data
Name | IMAN1-Booster/King |
Short Description | Booster (IMAN1-03-PS3), King (IMAN1-04-PS3) |
Owner | SESAME |
Country | Jordan |
Dedication to VI-SEEM
CPU (percent) | 50% |
Storage (percent) | 30% |
Accelerators (percent) | 30% |
CPU (core-hours per year) | 672,768 |
Storage in TB | 1 TB |
Accelerators (hours per year) | 5,382,144 |
Integration
System operational since | 2011 |
Available to the project from | PM06 |
Expected date to be phased | - |
Interfaces | SSH |
Computational Power
Number of servers | Booster (QTY=5), King (QTY=250) | Interconnect type | - | Peak performance (Tflops) | - |
Server specification | PlayStation3 | Interconnect latency | - | Real performance (Tflops) | - |
CPU per server | 1 PPE, 64-bit PowerPc | Interconnect bandwidth | - | Operating system | Yellow Dog Linux |
RAM per server | 256 MB XDR DRAM | Local filesystem type | - | Version | 6.2 |
Total number of CPU-cores | - | Total storage (TB) | 1 TB | Batch system/scheduler | Open MPI |
Max number of parallel processes | - | Peak performance CPU (Tflops) | - | Accelerators type | SPE (Synergistic Processing Element) |
Number of cores | 8 SPEs | Servers equipped with accelerators | 106 | Peak performance accelerators (Tflops) | Every PlayStation |
Accelerators per server | 8 |