The HPC Advisory Council is also a community effort support center for HPC end-users, providing the following capabilities:

HPC Advisory Council High Performance Center - the center provides a unique ability to access the latest Mellanox and the HPC Advisory Council member technology, even before it reaches the public availability. It provides the Council members and any HPC end user with a development, testing, benchmarking and optimization environment.
HPC Advisory Council support group - provide a support center for consultations, questions, issues etc. for the HPC end-users
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High-Performance Center Overview

HPC Advisory Council High-Performance Center offers an environment for developing, testing, benchmarking and optimizing products based on clustering technology. The center, located in Sunnyvale, California, provides on-site technical support and enables secure sessions onsite or remotely.

The High-Performance Center provides a unique ability to access the latest systems, CPU, and networking (InfiniBand/10GigE) technologies, even before it reaches the public availability. It provides a development testing and tuning environment for applications.

The clusters utilize 'Fat Tree'(or Constant Bisectional Bandwidth - CBB) network architecture to construct non-blocking switch configurations. Fat Tree network is a switch topology in which integrated non-blocking switch elements (crossbars) with a relatively low number of ports are used to build a non-blocking switch topology supporting a much larger number of endpoints. Using full Fat Tree networks is a key ingredient to deliver non-blocking bandwidth for high performance computing and other large scale compute clusters.

Current Available Systems

Janus

Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 16-node cluster
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 @ 2.93 GHz
Intel Cluster Ready certified cluster
Mellanox ConnectX® MCQH29-XCC 4X 40Gb/s InfiniBand mezzanine card
Mellanox M3601Q 36-Port 40Gb/InfiniBand Switch
Memory: 24GB memory per node

Saturn

Dell™ PowerEdge™ M605 12-node cluster
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 2389 (“Shanghai”) CPUs
Mellanox ConnectX® 20Gb/s InfiniBand mezz card
Mellanox 20Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Module
Memory: 8GB memory, DDR2 800MHz per node

Venus

SUN 2200 8-node cluster
Intel Xeon Quad-core X5472 CPUs
Mellanox InfiniBand ConnectX® 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapter
Mellanox 20Gb/s InfiniBand Switch
Memory: 32GB

Osiris

Dell PowerEdge SC 1435 24-node cluster
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 2382 SE CPUs
Mellanox InfiniBand ConnectX® HCAs
Mellanox InfiniBand 36-port switch
Memory: 16GB memory, DDR2 800MHz per node

Helios

Mellanox ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand technology
32 Rackable Systems c1000 DC powered rack-mount servers
64 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 Series Processors
Light weight 30 AWG InfiniBand cables from W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Scyld ClusterWare™ HPC cluster management
8GB FBD host memory from WinTec Industries

The HPC Advisory Council would also like to thank the following equipment providers for their generous donations throughout the High-Performance Center's history.