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Montana Tech is developing two 3D data visualization systems. Both systems provide an immersive visualization experience (aka virtual reality) through 3D stereoscopic imagery and user tracking systems. These systems allow scientists to directly interact with their data and helps them gain a better understanding of their data generated modeling on the HPC Cluster or collected in the field. Remote data visualization is possible by running [[VisIt]] from the cluster's login node.
 
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Revision as of 16:06, 8 September 2017

HPC Architecture

The Montana Tech HPC cluster contains 1 management node, 22 compute nodes, and a 25 TB (nfs0) and a 66 TB (nfs1) NFS storage systems. There is an additional computer server (copper). The compute nodes contain two 8-core Intel Xeon 2.2 GHz Processors (E5-2660) and either 64 or 128 GB of memory. Two of these nodes are GPU Nodes that contain three NVIDIA Tesla K20 accelerators and 128 GB of memory. Hyperthreading is enabled, so 704 threads can run simultaneously on just the XEON CPUs. A 40 Gbps InfiniBand (IB) network interconnects the nodes and the storage system.

The system has a theoretical peak performance of 6.2 TFLOPS without the GPUs. The GPUs alone have a theoretical peak performance of 7.0 TFLOPS for double precision floating point operations. So the entire cluster has a theoretical peak performance of over 13 TFLOPS. The cluster has been benchmarked without the two GPU nodes at 4.6 TFLOPS using the LINPACK benchmark.

The operating system is Centos 7.3 and Penguin's Scyld ClusterWare is used to maintain and provision the compute nodes.


Head Node
CPU Dual E5-2660 (2.2 GHz, 8-cores)
RAM 64 GB
Disk 500 GB
Copper Server
CPU Dual E5-2643 v3 (3.4 GHz, 6-cores)
RAM 128 GB
Disk 1 TB
Other Specs
NFS storage nfs0 25 TB
nfs1 66 TB
Network Ethernet
40 Gbps InfiniBand
14 Compute Nodes
CPU Dual E5-2660 (2.2 GHz, 8-cores)
RAM 64 GB
Disk 500 GB
Nodes n0~n11, n13, n14
6 Compute Nodes
CPU Dual E5-2660 (2.2 GHz, 8-cores)
RAM 128 GB
Disk 500 GB
Nodes n12, n15~n19
2 GPU Nodes
CPU Dual E5-2660 (2.2 GHz, 8-cores)
RAM 128 GB
Disk 500 GB
GPU Three nVidia Tesla K20
Nodes n20, n21


3D Visualization System

Montana Tech is developing two 3D data visualization systems. Both systems provide an immersive visualization experience (aka virtual reality) through 3D stereoscopic imagery and user tracking systems. These systems allow scientists to directly interact with their data and helps them gain a better understanding of their data generated modeling on the HPC Cluster or collected in the field. Remote data visualization is possible by running VisIt from the cluster's login node.

Windows Immersive 3D Visualization System
CPU Dual E5-2660 (2.2 GHz, 8-cores)
RAM 64 GB
Disk 250 GB SSD + 2TB HD
Linux IQ Station
CPU Dual E5-2643 v3 (3.4 GHz, 6-cores)
RAM 128 GB
Disk 1 TB
Windows Immersive 3D Visualization System
CPU Dual E5-2660 (2.2 GHz, 8-cores)
RAM 64 GB
Disk 250 GB SSD + 2TB HD