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Supercomputer (CARINA)

The  IBM Power 7-755 high-performance computing cluster is located in the Petit Science Center, GSU’s state-of-the-art primary research facility. The system name for the IBM P7 is CARINA.Engineered for computationally intense applications, CARINA helps sustain core research in chemistry, physics, biology, neuroscience and other disciplines.

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Specifications

  • 640 compute cores – 20 nodes each with 128 GB memory and 32 cores (four 8-core 3.3 Ghz Power 755 processors)
  • Infiniband high-speed interconnects
  • AIX operating system
  • 20 TB of usable disk space, capable of 8 Gbps data transfers
  • 14.1 Teraflops
  • Configured to allow expansion of an additional 20 compute nodes and increased storage

Applications and Compilers

  • EnginFrame (Version 5)
  • LoadLeveler (Version 4.1.0.8)
  • Gaussian (G09)
  • Amber (Version 8)
  • SAS (Version 9.2)
  • NAMD (Versions 2.7 and 2.8)
  • IBM XL Compilers – C/C++ (Version 11.1.0.0)
  • IBM XL Compiler – Fortran (Version 13.1.0.3)
  • GNU Compilers – GCC, GFortran and G++ (Version 4.6.1)

Packages

  • Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) 5.1
  • Parallel ESSL 3.3
  • Parallel Environment 5.2
  • Perl Version 5 Runtime Environment 5.8.8
  • Python 2.6
  • Java SDK 5.0 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Java SDK 6.0 (32-bit)