Manycore Grid Architecture

This topic intends to describe the architecture used to allow users to fairly share the manycore Xeon Phi serves.

Architecture Description

Servers Specification

phi02 and phi 03 - SGI model C2108-GP5 (grid nodes):

• 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2699v3
• 128 GB DDR4 2133 MHz
• 2 x Hard Disk Drives 2 TB SATA
• 2 x Infiniband FDR (Mellanox)
• 2 x SSD NVMexpress Intel 750 Series (1.2 TB each)
• 1 x PCI Intel TrueScale QLE7342
• 1 x 40Gbps Intel XL710-QDA2
• 2 x Intel Xeon Phi 7210P
• 2 x Intel Xeon Phi 5110P
• Redundant Power Supply

• 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670
• 64 GB DDR3 1600 MHz
• 2 x Hard Disk Drives 2 TB SATA
• 3 x Intel Xeon Phi 3120
• 2 x Intel I350 Gbe

• 2 x CPU
• 4 GB RAM
• 64 GB HDD

Layout Specification

The grid nodes and servers are connected using a 10 Gb ethernet link. The grid node share a common filesystem mounted using Network Filesystem (NFS). This mountpoint is supposed to store the users files.

The grid nodes phi02 and 03 also make available to the users a highspeed NVMe disk available at the /nvm directory. This highspeed data transfer device can reach peaks of

-- rmcobe - 2016-01-05

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