Novo-G cluster

The Novo-G cluster features 96 top-end accelerator FPGAs (Altera Stratix-III E260), each with 768 18x18 multipliers, 254K logic elements, 204K registers, with 4.25GB of memory attached. These 96 FPGAs are housed in 24 GiDEL ProcStar-III quad-FPGA boards and supported by 26 quad-core Nehalem Xeon processors, 20Gb/s non-blocking DDR InfiniBand, GigE, and 576GB total RAM. A broad and innovative suite of design tools are being featured, including MPI, UPC, and SHMEM at the system level, and Impulse-C, Altera FP compiler, Mitrion-C, VHDL, Verilog, and library cores at the device level, with a broad and growing set of productivity tools and libraries borne from CHREC research projects. The following are specs for the 24 compute nodes and 1 head node:

Compute nodes (24 in all)

• 4U rackmount chassis with 645W P/S, Supermicro CSE-743T-645B chassis, SuperMicro X8DTL-I mobo
• Intel Xeon E5520 quad-core CPU @ 2.26 GHz, 4MB Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI
• 6GB ECC DDR3, 1333 MHz
• GiDEL PCIe x8 quad-FPGA card with Stratix-III E260s, ProcStar-III
• Mellanox DDR InfiniBand PCIe card, MHGS18-XTC
• Integrated dual-GigE ports & video
• 250GB SATA2 drive

Head node (1)

• 1U rackmount chassis with 560W P/S, SuperMicro SYS-6016T-NTF
• Dual Xeon E5520 quad-core CPUs @ 2.26 GHz, 4MB Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI
• 24GB ECC DDR3, 1333 MHz
• Integrated dual-GigE ports & video
• ICH10R controller for 6 SATA drives
• 3 x 1TB Enterprise SATA2 drives