Hardware of LEO III

Cluster

The whole cluster consists of three air cooled iDataPlex racks:

  • Front view - closed doors Front view - opened doors
  • The middle one of the three racks contains the main infrastructure components for network and storage, as well as the three GPU nodes:
    Front views

Compute nodes

  • 162 compute nodes, each of which comprises:
    • 2 Intel six-core Xeon X5650 cpus(12 cores running on 2.7 GHz)
    • 24 GB DDR3 ECC RAM (2 GB per core)
    • Single-Port 4x QDR Infiniband PCIe 2.0 HCA
    • 250 GB SATA2 hard disk
    Closeup view of some rack mounted nodes
  • 3 GPU nodes, additionally equipped with:
    • 2 NVidia Tesla M2090 graphics cards
    • an extra 24 GB of main memory
  • One master node for login and job submission
    • 2 Intel six-core Xeon X5650 cpus
    • 24 GB DDR3 RAM
    • Raid controller (configured with RAID 1)
    • 2 146GB 15k 3.5'' Hot-Swap SAS hard disks
    • Single-Port 4x QDR Infiniband PCIe 2.0 HCA
    • Dual-port SFP+ 10GbE PCIe 2.0 Adapter

Network devices

  • Infiniband
    • 3 Mellanox IS5030 36-port managed QDR spine switches
    • 7 Mellanox IS5030 36-port managed QDR leaf switches
  • Gigabit-Ethernet
    • 3 48-Port 1 Gb Ethernet Switches
    • 2 SFB Modules (fiber optic uplinks to university LAN)

Storage system

The storage system offers a total of 86 TB (brutto) and consists of:

  • two disk systems:
    • 2 FC-SAS, dual storage controllers (2 controller enclosures)
    • 4 EXP3524 expansion units and Environment Service Modules (4 SAS enclosures)
    • 144 600GB 10k 2.5'' SAS disks
    Front view
  • four redundant file servers each with the following configuration:
    • 1 Intel Xeon Quad-Core E5630 CPU
    • 32 GB DDR3 RAM
    • Raid controller (configured with RAID 1)
    • 4 146GB 15k 2.5'' Hot-Swap SAS hard disks
    • Single-Port 4x QDR Infiniband PCIe 2.0 HCA

Photos: Wolfgang Kapferer

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