High Performance Computing and Networking Lab (HPCNL)

Lab Resources

Resources

The high performance engineering lab is comprised of two parts. The multi-core servers section is equipped with state-of-the-art multi-core processors based systems and switches supporting up to 1 Gbps (Giga Bits per Second) network setup. The cluster section is equipped with a capacity 180 PCs supporting up to 1 Gbps network setup. This lab is extensible and in future will be upgraded to support 10 Gbps network setup. This lab is designed to international standard providing secure internal and external high speed connectivity.

Servers

  • 12 Core Octeaon Processor and EBH5610 evaluation board (MIPS64 Architecture) Sony’s Play Station 3 (A PPC architecture)

  • Two Dell PowerEdge 2950:
    • 2 x Quad core Intel Xeon processors, 2 GHz, 2x6 MB L2 Cache.
    • 8 GB RAM (4 x 2 GB)
    • 4 x 146 GB Hard Disks
    • Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC
    • 10 Gbps PCI Ethernet NIC
    • Fedora 8 operating system installed.
  • Two Dell PowerEdge 2970:
    • 2 x AMD Dual Core Opteron processors, 2GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache.
    • 8 GB RAM (4 x 2 GB)
    • 4 x 146 GB Hard Disks
    • Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC
    • 10 Gbps PCI Ethernet
    • Fedora 8 operating system installed.
  • One servers with the following specifications:
    • 2 x Dual Core Intel Xeon processors, 2.67 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache.
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 2 x 80 GB Hard Disks
    • Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC
    • Fedora 8 operating system installed.
  • One Movidis Server:
    • 16 cores Cavium Octeon processor, 500 MHz, 1 MB Shared L2 Cache
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 250 GB Hard Disk
    • 8 Ports Gigabit Ethernet NIC
    • Debian Linux operating system installed.

Switches

  • Two CISCO Catalyst 3560G, 48 ports switches
  • Two CISCO Catalyst 3560 48 ports switches
  • One 8 ports KVM switch

Others

  • CISCO PIX firewall
  • Two 3 KVA UPS
  • 35 Pentium IV PCs for cluster