Truchas Cluster

The 12 machines of the new Truchas Cluster, Spanish for trout, have not just been an upgrade from the older Turing cluster, they have give the group a new purpose. They should evolve into a development type cluster to evaluate applications like the Maui scheduler as well as providing workstations and serving as a computational engine.

The Truchas Cluster 12 machines serve a dual purposes. The cluster acts as workstations for workshop attendees and also as a computation engine for naturally parallel jobs. These jobs are scheduled through Condor, which migrates the jobs to other machines when the cluster is used for a workshop. The primary users of the Truchas Cluster are workshops, research assistants, general access for AHPCC accounts, Condor HPC users.

• Documentation- Users Guide
• Compilers - GNU, NAG-f95
• MPICH (not yet available)
• Numerical Libraries- FFTw
• Scheduler: Condor

Additional Information about the Truchas Cluster:

• 12 machines
• 2-650 mg Pentium III processors
• 1 gigabyte of RAM
  
• 6400 graphics card
  
• 32 megabytes
  
• 20 gig hard drive
  
• VA Linux Red hat 6.2-kernals 2.2.14
  
• VM ware for windows 2000
  
• Coral WordPerfect-star office
  
• Part of Condor flock

   

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