High Performance Computing Systems Laboratory

Welcome

Infrastructure

Our lab has a strong and constantly upgraded grid infrastructure that currently consists of:

CY-01-KIMON

1 Generic Server thales.grid.ucy.ac.cy
- IBM xSeries 335 (2x Intel Xeon HT 2.8GHz CPUs, 2GB RAM, 2x200GB HDD)

1 Grid Storage Element plethon.grid.ucy.ac.cy
- EGEE Disk Pool Manager (DPM)
- 3.8TB in RAID 5 configuration, giving 3.2TB of storage space
- 1 IBM DS400 SAN Storage System (14 Hard Disks SCSI 300GB)
- 1 IBM eServer 326m Machine, DS400 controller
- NFS mount to EGEE computing element

2 Regional Grid Resource Brokers
- rb101.grid.ucy.ac.cy (IBM ThinkCentre, 1x Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.6GHz / 1MB L2, 2GB RAM)
- wmslb101.grid.ucy.ac.cy (SuperMicro server, 2x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz CPUs, 1GB RAM) BEST EFFORT SERVICE

1 Regional Grid Information Index (BDII) bdii101.grid.ucy.ac.cy
- IBM ThinkCentre (1x Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.6GHz / 1MB L2, 1GB RAM)

1 Grid Gate (Computing Element) ce101.grid.ucy.ac.cy
- Super Micro (2x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz CPUs, 1GB RAM)

35 Grid Worker Nodes (80 CPUs) wn107 to wn141.grid.ucy.ac.cy

7 IBM eServer 326m Machines (2.0GHz dual AMD Opteron 64-bit CPUs, 1GB RAM)
1 IBM SuperMicro Machines (2.4GHz dual Xeon CPUs, 1GB RAM)
22 IBM eServer 326m Machines (2.6GHz dual AMD Opteron 64-bit CPUs, 2GB RAM)
5 IBM system x3455 Machines (2.6GHz dual AMD Opteron dual-core 64-bit CPUs, 1GB RAM)

1 Grid User Interface ui101.grid.ucy.ac.cy
- Fujitsu-Siemens (1x Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz CPU, 1GB RAM)

1 Network Monitoring node mon101.grid.ucy.ac.cy
- Fujitsu-Siemens (1x Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz CPU, 1GB RAM)

1 Micronet Gigabit Ethernet switch 24 ports
1 CISCO Gigabit Ethernet switch 48 ports (module)

A Micronet Gigabit copper switch connects the nodes, while the cluster is connected with GÉANT via an ATM switch at the Network centre of University of Cyprus, at 155Mbps.

CyGrid Testbed

EGEE

The High Performance Computing systems Lab participates in the EGEE project. Connectivity is provided through Géant and the Cyprus Research and Educational Network (CYNET).

Additional access to Departmental computing resources, includes:

1 Sunfire Symmetric Multiprocessor System, 4CPUs, 900Ghz, 8GB RAM
1 Enterprise E250, 2 CPUs, 3 GB RAM
8 Solaris Stations connected through LAN

Pictures of Equipment

Mobile Equipment

Mobile equipment owned by the lab

EGEE Testbed 326m-eServers 326x-326m-cabinet

Cluster dedicated to the EGEE testbed

Emispher Infrastructure

PlanetLab

PlanetLab@UCY is hosting 2 PlanetLab nodes.

Two SuperMicro Servers (SuperServer 6022P-I) support the global PlanetLab infrastructure. Each SuperMicro has:

2.4 GHz Pentium4
2GByte Maximum RAM
80+160 GByte total disk space
Fast Ethernet interface

The two nodes connects to a network addressable power controller unit (PCU). The PCU can power cycle nodes from a remote location when the need arises.

The two nodes we currently administer are:

node_id :10408
IP : 194.42.17.123

node_id :10409
IP : 194.42.17.124

HPCL Lab