Resource centre Pecs SC
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Resource centre Pecs SC
Pecs supercomputer is a SGI 1000 Ultraviolet with SMP (ccNUMA) architecture. The machine has Intel Xeon X7542 (Nehalem EX) type 6-core processors and the total cores are 1152. The computing power exceeds the value of 10 Tflops. Each processor can directly access the 6 terabytes of memory over the Numalink communication infrastructure. This supercomputer has 0.5 petabyte storage, and high-end visualization subsystem is added which is an efficient, modern, water-cooled technology. It has SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system.
Parallel programming models
Supported parallel programming paradigms are MPI, OpenMP and Hybrid.
Development software
Infrastructural services
User administration, authentication, authorization, security
Users can access it with SSH public key authentication
Workflow and batch management
Sun Grid Engine 6.2u5 local resource manager
Distributed filesystem and data management
There are two filesystems available to users (/home, /scratch) where /scratch is for temporary files created during job execution.
Accounting and resource management
Sun Grid Engine's accounting
Operational monitoring
Operational monitoring is performed using various tools: Nagios, Munin
Helpdesk and user support
User support is provided through mailing lists and dedicated hu_niifi queue at HP-SEE Helpdesk
Libraries and application tools
1) Software libraries:
PVM3, FFTW3, SGI-MPI(MPT), HDF5, OpenMPI, ATLAS, BLAS, BLACS-OpenMPI, GUILE, MPICH2, LAPACK, Gromacs
2) Development and application software available:
Intel compiler, GNU compilers (gcc, g++, gfortran), GDB
Access the Pecs SC
Support
HP-SEE researchers should use the help desk - https://helpdesk.hp-see.eu/. If you don’t have an account send mail to Ioannis Liaboti - iliaboti at grnet dot gr. Additional way of support is through direct contact address: hpc-admin at ipb dot ac dot rs.