Bigben (computer)
The Bigben supercomputer was a Cray XT3 MPP system with 2068 nodes located at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.[1][2] It was decommissioned on March 31, 2010.[3] Bigben was a part of the TeraGrid.[2]
System architecture
[edit]BigBen was a Cray XT3 MPP system with 2,068 compute nodes linked by a custom-designed interconnect.[2][3] Twenty-two dedicated IO processors were also connected to this network.[3][4] Each compute node had two 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron processors.[3][5] Each compute processor had its own cache, but the two processors on a node shared 2 GB of memory and the network connection.[3][5]
Operating system
[edit]Bigben ran Catamount, a subset of Unix.[5][6] On Bigben's front-end processors, SUSE Linux was used.[5]
File system
[edit]Bigben had two file systems comprising together over 200 TB of storage space.[5]
Compilers
[edit]Bigben had Portland Group, GNU, and UPC compilers installed.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Big Ben". US National Science Foundation. June 23, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Hemsoth, Nicole (July 22, 2005). "Pittsburgh Unveils 'Big Ben'". HPC Wire. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e "BigBen (XT3)". Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
- ^ Dayal, Shobhit (July 2008). Characterizing HEC Storage Systems at Rest (PDF) (Report). Carnegie Mellon University. p. 9. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f "Bigben". Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. January 29, 2008. Archived from the original on March 25, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
- ^ Nystrom, Nick; Weisser, Deborah; Lim, Junwoo; Wang, Yang; Brown, Shawn T.; Reddy, Raghu; Stone, Nathan T.; Woodward, Paul; Porter, David; Di Matteo, Tiziana; Kalé, L. V.; Zheng, Gengbin (2006). "Enabling Computational Science on the Cray XT3" (PDF). CUG Conference 2006. Zurich: Cray User Group. Retrieved February 16, 2025.