Cluster Technology for Large Scale Applications

The U. S. Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC) has very recently deployed two of the most powerful clusters available today. This talk will discuss their selection, integration, and most importantly their impact on the capabilities of the DoD research, development, test and evaluation communities.

One system, delivered by IBM, uses 2320 AMD Opteron processors with a Myrinet2000 interconnect. The second system was delivered by Linux Networx and uses 2132 Intel XEON processors with EM64T and also uses a Myrinet2000 interconnect. Successful deployment of these systems relied on novel use of HPC technology to support both the acquisition and the installation of these systems into the facility originally constructed to house the ENIAC and the Army’s first Cray-2 systems. Late breaking results on key applications will be presented to compare and contrast the DoD HPCMP’s first major cluster systems.