Sophia:Hardware

The hardware of Sophia is composed of 3 active clusters:

Azur:
- In production from feb 18 2005 to 27 jan 2011
- updated in jan 2007 (downgrade from 105 to 72 nodes + RSA on 70 nodes)
- updated in nov 2009 (downgrade from 72 to 49 nodes)
- 49-node Dual AMD Opteron cluster
- R_peak = 392 GFlops , R_max=FIXME
Helios:
- In production since june 2 2006
- 56-node Quad Core AMD Opteron cluster
- R_peak = 985 GFlops, R_max = 765 GFlops (with myrinet)
Sol:
- In production since feb 23 2007
- 50-node Quad Core AMD Opteron cluster
- R_peak = 1040 GFlops, R_max = 756 GFlops
Suno:
- In production since Apr 1 2010
- 45-node Quad Core Intel Xeon Nehalem cluster
- R_peak = 3.25 TFlops, R_max = 2.28 TFlops

Azur: IBM Nodes - retired

Model:	IBM eServer 325 49 nodes
CPU:	AMD Opteron 246 2.0GHz / 1MB / 333MHz 49 nodes x 2 cpus per node = 98 cpus 98 cpus x 1 core(s) per cpu = 98 cores
Memory:	2 GB
Network:	2 x Gigabit Ethernet (1 in use) 49 cards Myrinet-2000 (M3F-PCIXF-2) Driver: `tg3`
Storage:	80 GB / IDE Driver: `amd74xx`
Misc:	-
Date of arrival:	feb 18 2005
Date of retiree:	jan 27 2011

Model:	Sun Fire X4100 56 nodes
CPU:	AMD Opteron 275 2.2GHz / 1MB / 400MHz 56 nodes x 2 cpus per node = 112 cpus 112 cpus x 2 core(s) per cpu = 224 cores
Memory:	4 GB
Network:	4 x Gigabit Ethernet (1 in use) 56 cards Myrinet-2000 (M3F-PCIXF-2) Driver: `e1000`
Storage:	2x73 GB Raid0 / SAS(2x 73GB disks set as a single hardware RAID-0 device, see LSI SAS manual for technical details) Driver: `mptsas`
Misc:	-
Date of arrival:	june 2 2006

Model:	Sun Fire X2200 M2 50 nodes
CPU:	AMD Opteron 2218 2.6GHz / 1MB / 667MHz 50 nodes x 2 cpus per node = 100 cpus 100 cpus x 2 core(s) per cpu = 200 cores
Memory:	4 GB
Network:	2 x Gigabit Ethernet (NVIDIA MCP55 Pro, one in use on 2 nodes, two on 47 nodes) 2 x Gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom BCM5715c, tg3 driver, disabled) Driver: `forcedeth`
Storage:	250 GB / SATA Driver: `sata_nv`
Misc:
Date of arrival:	feb 23 2007

Model:	Dell R410 45 nodes
CPU:	Intel Xeon E5520 2.26GHz / 8MB / 1066MHz 45 nodes x 2 cpus per node = 90 cpus 90 cpus x 4 core(s) per cpu = 360 cores
Memory:	32 GB
Network:	2 x Gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom NetXtremeII BCM5716) Driver: `bnx2`
Storage:	2x300 GB / SAS/RAID-0 Driver: `megaraid_sas`
Misc:	BIOS settings: Cstate=on, Power Management=OS, Turbo=Off, Hyperthreading=Off
Date of arrival:	jan 27 2010

Model:	Sun X4100 x 1
CPU:	AMD Opteron 275 2.2 GHz x 2
Memory:	4 GB (4x1 GB)
Network:	4 x Gigabit Ethernet (Intel e1000) 1 x 2Gb Fibre Channel (QLogic QLA2342 - Sun 133MHz)
Storage:	73GB / SAS / 10K RPM (RAID-1 "Mirroring") Sun StorEdge 3511 FC Array: 2TB / SATA II / 7200 RPM (RAID-5: 6x500GB, with one hot-standy disk) ([1])
Misc: