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Outline of Large-Scale Parallel Computing Server

This page explains the specification and nodes configuration of Large-Scale Parallel Computing Server.

Configuration and specification

Large-Scale Parallel Computing Server is divided into a supercomputer for job execution and a front end node for login processing and job submission.
The configuration and specifications of each are shown below.

Supercomputer Front end node
Model name Cray XC50-LC Cray XC50-LC
Number of servers 293 servers + 3 servers (spare) 2 servers
CPU Intel Xeon Gold 6150 Intel Xeon E5-2695v4
Frequency : 2.7 GHz Frequency : 2.1 GHz
Number of CPU cores : 18 Core Number of CPU cores : 18 Core
Number of socket : 2 Sockets/Server Number of socket : 1 Socket/Server
Total amount of main memories 768 GiB/Server 768 GiB/Server

Configuration of nodes

Nodes of the supercomputer are as follows.

Node type Usage Number of nodes Installation site
Front end nodes For submitting jobs 2 nodes Center for computational
materials science
Room101
Computational node For calculating 293 nodes Center for computational
materials science
Room101
Computational node(Spare) For changing node
when failure is generated
in a computational node
3 nodes Center for computational
materials science
Room101