Monday, March 8, 2010

IBM donates Linux-based POWER7 super-computer

Rice University has deployed a sweet POWER7 based cluster based on Linux. The brand new IBM 750 systems in the cluster are based on Linux, Maui, Torque, openmpi, Infiniband, 10Gb Ethernet, the Advance Toolchain, IBM compilers and IBM's ESSL math libraries.

Check out http://bluebiou.rice.edu/.

Over the coming weeks, we'll describe numerous collaborative efforts underway to develop, deploy, leverage, and execute workloads on the cluster.

One of the exciting aspects of the project is the team at Rice University is well versed in managing and deploying open-source-based production-level HPC clusters used by hundreds of students and researchers.

The initial goal is to integrate the cluster into an existing Maui/Torque infrastructure deployed and in use at Rice University. Extending the infrastructure to allow researchers control of POWER7 SMT hardware threads on each node, the number of 16MB huge pages if desired, energy optimization techniques, and POWER tuning techniques.
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Bill Buros

Bill leads an IBM Linux performance team in Austin Tx (the only place really to live in Texas). The team is focused on IBM's Power offerings (old, new, and future) working with IBM's Linux Technology Center (the LTC). While the focus is primarily on Power systems, the team also analyzes and improves overall Linux performance for IBM's xSeries products (both Intel and AMD) , driving performance improvements which are both common for Linux and occasionally unique to the hardware offerings.

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