Hardware

Virtual Wall 1

The hardware of Virtual Wall 1 consists out of:

90x pcgen1 nodes:

• 2x Dual core AMD opteron 2212 (2GHz) CPU

• 8GB RAM

• 4x 80GB harddisk

• 4-6 gigabit nics per node (nodes n17x-xx):

  08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 06)
  and this: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55  (lspci didn't show the cards)
  

100x pcgen2 nodes:

• 2x Quad core Intel E5520 (2.2GHz) CPU

• 12GB RAM

• 1x 160GB harddisk

• 2-4 gigabit nics per node (nodes n14x-xx):

  06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
  

16x pcgrid nodes:

• 2x Dual Core AMD opteron 270 (2GHz) CPU

• 4GB RAM

• 1x 80GB harddisk

• 1 gigabit nic per node (nodes n133-xx):

  01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
  

Virtual Wall 2

The hardware of Virtual Wall 2 consists out of:

100x pcgen3 nodes:

• 2x Hexacore Intel E5645 (2.4GHz) CPU

• 24GB RAM

• 1x 250GB harddisk

• 1-5 gigabit nics per node (nodes n095-xx, n096-xx, n097-xx):

  06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

6x pcgen1 nodes:

• 2x Dual core AMD opteron 2212 (2GHz) CPU

• 8GB RAM

• 4x 80GB harddisk

• 6 gigabit nics per node:

  08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 06)
  and this: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55  (lspci didn't show the cards)
  

28x pcgen4 nodes:

• 2x 8core Intel E5-2650v2 (2.6GHz) CPU

• 48GB RAM

• 1x 250GB harddisk

• gigabit and 10gigabit connections (still to connect) (nodes n091-xx):

  81:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10 Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
  84:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
  

Note

The following pcgen4 machines are equiped with RAID adapters and fast disks and are used as shared nodes, providing XEN VMs. It is also possible to have a public IPv4 address on VMs on these hosts (besides the default IPv6 public IP address):

• n091-01
• n091-06
• n091-26

25x pcgen5 nodes:

• 1x 4 core E3-1220v3 (3.1GHz)

• 16GB RAM

• 1x 250GB harddisk

• 2-10 gigabit connections (nodes n105-xx):

  03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
  07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
  

65x pcgen6 nodes:

not yet generally available (bandwidth problems on switch)

2x gpunode (n083-01, n083-02)

• 1x 6core Intel E5645 (2.4GHz)
• 12GB RAM
• 4x 1TB disk in RAID5
• 4x nVidia Geforce GTX 580 (1536MB)

Tip

Use the image urn:publicid:IDN+wall2.ilabt.iminds.be+image+dred:gpuready if you want to have a pre-installed SDK in /root

8x gpunode2:

• n083-03 and n083-10: Dual nVidia GeForce GTX980
• n083-04: nVidia Tesla
• n083-05 and n083-06: nVidia GeForce GTX980 + SSD
• n083-07, n083-08 and n083-09: nVidia GeForce GTX 980

8x gpunode3:

• 1x 12core Intel Core i7-8700 (3.20GHz)
• 32GB
• 500GB SSD
• nVidia Geforce 1080 Ti (12GB)

2x _gpunode3-v100:

same as gpunode3 but:

• 1x nVidia Tesla V100 (32GB)

3x gpunode4 and 1x gpunode4b

Nodes with 11 GPUs each (1080Ti). In use as cluster 4 in GPULab.

1x netfpga

Unsupported old hardware with netFPGAs (contact us if you think you need them)

1x supernode

• 2x 6x2core Intel Xeon E5645 (2.40GHz)
• 18x 16GB = 288GB
• 1x 250GB + 1x 5TB /dev/sdb (RAID)
• 4 gigabit nics