New computing node

[Kirthevasan Kandasamy]

This is awesome predrag.
many thanks !

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <predragp at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Autonians,
>
> About a month ago I built very powerful computing node for Foxconn project
> (foxconn.int.autonlab.org). I just got permission from Dr. Dubrawski and
> Dr. Schneider to make it available to all members of Auton Lab with the
> understanding that priority when it comes to use of this server will be
> given to members of Foxconn team. You can access this computing node with
> your regular LDAP credentials just like any other machine in the lab.
>
> Hardware specs:
>
> 2xIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz 8 core each (16 hyper-threads)
>
> RAM 384 GB of the latest and fastest
>
> storage space 6 TB effective (most of it will be used by foxconn but you
> scratch directories are there too)
>
> NFS is mounted with new and improved options (I am allowing script
> execution directly from NFS). Still be realistic about the speed which is
> in real terms 80-90 MB/s due to 1 Gigabit network limitation. Theoretical
> speed of NFS on this network is about 120 MB/s. To give you an idea how
> fast/slow this is I will remind you that new SSD drives including the one
> I use to install OS on this server have speed of over 600 MB/s. RAID 6
> with XFS peeks around 350 MB/s. That means that using local file system to
> do data science is at least 4 time faster than using NFS.
>
>
> Finally some great software news for this server. It runs Red Hat 7.1
> which is compiled with gcc-4.8.3. Feels much faster than 6.6. I installed
> latest MATLAB R2015a, R, python-2.7.5 is now default system Python. Usual
> suspects are there too: Pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, scipy, ipython, blas,
> atlas, boost, gsl, and the whole slue of other software you are accustomed
> to.
>
>
> Enjoy,
> Predrag
>
>
>
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