HPC Resources

The scientific computing facility at the American Museum of Natural History consists of several high-performance compute platforms: two Intel XEON multi-node Linux clusters, one AMD multi-core server and the special-purpose GRavity PipelinE (GRAPE) machines used for computing gravitational forces at speeds of several teraflops. The clusters are used primarily for scientific applications extending phylogenetic analysis in computational biology to large-scale astrophysics simulations.

General specifications:

• Enyo is an Intel Xeon 64-bit machine with dual core 3.0GHz Intel 33 CPUs and 4MB L2 cache. Each node has 16GB RAM with and additional terabyte of shared memory. There are 128 processors available for use. The system is configured with Infiniband interconnects and runs Cent0S, kernel version 2.6. This machine has been in service since 2006. It runs the Scyld Clusterware4.0 Taskmaster Suite resource management software.
• Demeter is an Intel Xeon 32-bit machine with dual-core 2.8GHz 128 CPUs Each node has 4GB RAM and there are 256 processors available for use. The system is configured with Myrinet interconnect and 100MB Ethernet. At the time of acquisition on 2002, Demeter was number 107 on the Top 500 list of supercomputers.
• Eve is an AMD Opteron 64-bit, 8-way server CPU, 2.2GHz Opteron 846 CPUs. It has 128GB RAM and runs CentOS 5.1 This machine is used mainly for testing and development.