Noor Computer Cluster
KAUST researchers have access to Noor computer cluster, which is a Beowulf class heterogeneous computer cluster. The hardware consists of three different types of nodes with different usage profiles. The general-purpose compute nodes are available for all users. The operating system on all nodes is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4. - General-purpose compute nodes (cn001-cn076)
- For general purpose computing
- Jobs are directed to these nodes by default
- GPU-accelerated nodes (gpu01-gpu32)
- For applications that can utilize NVidia Tesla GPUs for computation, usually with the CUDA or OpenCL programming languages
- Nodes sent to the gpu queue will be directed here
- SMP nodes (smp01-smp4)
- For applications which require a large shared memory area
- Different processor architecture (Power6) than the other cluster nodes
| Node names | cn001-cn076 | gpu01-gpu32 | smp01-smp04 | | Node model | IBM iDataplex dx360m2 | IBM x3650 | IBM p570 | | Node count | 76 | 32 | 4 | | CPU Architecture | X86-64 | X86-64 | PPC64 | | CPU Model | Intel Xeon X5570 | Intel Xeon X5570 | IBM Power6 | | CPU Clock rate | 2.93GHz | 2.93GHz | 4.2GHz | | Cores per Socket | 4 | 4 | 4 | | Sockets per node | 2 | 2 | 8 | | Cores per node | 8 | 8 | 32 | | Theoretical max DP GFlop/s per node | 93.76 | 93.76 (CPU),172.5 (GPU) | 537.6 | | RAM per node | 48GB | 24GB | 512GB | | /tmp disk per node | 50GB | 180GB | 250GB | | Coprocessor | | NVidia Tesla S1070 | |
Compilers
x86 The following compiler suites are available on the x86-based nodes (cn*, gpu*): - GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
- The default compiler on Noor
- Version 4.1.2 is loaded by default
- Other versions (3.4.6, 4.1.2, 4.3.4 etc.) can be
- Portland Group (PGI)
- Intel compilers
Power6 The following compiler suites are available on the Power6 -based nodes (smp*): - IBM XL Compilers (xlf, xlc)
- GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
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