Dell Cluster
Dell Cluster Architecture and Hardware Notes
This page gives a simple view of the Dell Cluster architecture from a users prospective.
The subsequent information should help people optimize their codes.
2 x Login nodes
Dell PowerEdge R410 1U rack-mount server
2 x Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz processors
24GB RAM (6 x 4GB 1066MHz)
160GB SATA2 7200 rpm disk
110 x Slave nodes (basic)
Dell PowerEdge R410 1U rack-mount server
2 x Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz processors
24GB RAM (6 x 4GB 1066MHz)
160GB SATA2 7200 rpm disk
4 x Slave nodes (large memory)
Dell PowerEdge R610 1U rack-mount server
2 x Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz processors
48GB RAM (12 x 4GB 1066MHz)
2 x 160GB SATA2 7200 rpm disk
GPU node
Tesla S1070 1U (960 cores)
Dell PowerEdge R710 2U rack-mount host workstation
2 x PCIe host interface cards (for connection with Tesla)
2 x Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz processors
24GB RAM (12 x 2GB 1066MHz)
3 x 300GB SAS 15K rpm disks
Interconnect
Ethernet - all nodes
Infiniband low latency high bandwidth interconnects to 36 nodes within the cluster for a total of 288 cores connected by Infiniband. A QLogic Quad Data Rate (QDR) switch and Double Data Rate (DDR) Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) are used.
Storage
2 x Dell PowerEdge R710 2U rack-mount IO nodes act as NFS file servers
2 x Intel Xeon E5530 2.4GHz processors
24GB RAM (12 x 2GB 1066MHz)
3 x146GB SAS 15K rpm disks
These IO nodes connect to a Dell MD3000 storage unit providing 36TB of shared disk.
Summary of Xeon E5530 processors
Quadcore
64bit (will also run 32 bit code)
Integrated Memory Controller providing 3 channels to DDR3 memory
L3 cache 8MB on-die shared across all cores
L2 cache 256KB per core
L1 cache (32KB for instructions and 32KB for data) per core
TLB level 1 cache holds 192 entries
TLB level 2 cache holds 512 entries
NetBurst Microarchitecture
Hyperthreading
QuickPath Interconnent connecting processors
Support for Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2
