[auton-users] New Compute Node: LOW1

[Artur Dubrawski]

This is very very cool milestone for the Lab, thanks Mike
for letting everyone know!

Artur

On 11/2/2011 3:55 PM, Michael J. Baysek wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the availability of a new compute node, LOW1.
>
> 48 Opteron K10.5 cores @ 2.3 GHz.
> 512 GB (yes, GB) of RAM
>
> After the SCS machine room power upgrade completion (currently rumored
> to be occurring over the December holiday break,) the machine will be
> installed into our rack. For the time being, this node is situated
> outside of the machine room, and connected over VPN connection to the
> rest of the cluster.
>
> You will notice network I/O being a bit slower as a result of the VPN
> and slower 100 Mbps network connection. For now, you can mitigate this
> by copying your files and doing your I/O to the /scratch directory on
> LOW1, and copying the results back into your /auton directory.
>
> The new node brings our compute cluster to a new milestone! Auton Lab
> compute resources now include 200+ CPU cores for the first time (212, to
> be exact) and total RAM of 1 TB, including project machines. This number
> does not include CPU and memory from desktops or infrastructure servers.
>
> Enjoy LOW1 !
>