At the start of the project (January 2009), the production HPC consisted of 32 computing nodes. Each node consisted of 8 cores, therefore equaling a total of 256 cores. The cluster reached a maximum performance of 3.2 teraflops. Today, the Yamato HPC has 672 cores with a total of 1.8TB RAM.
| Production 2 – Old HPC |
| Operating System : Scientific Linux SL release 6.1 |
| 16 G1 Nodes with 8 cores, 10 GB RAM + ( 24 GB RAM) per node |
| 4 G7 Nodes with 12 cores, 24 GB RAM per node |
| 13 G8 Nodes with 32 core, 32 GB RAM + (2×64 GB RAM) per node |
| Totals: 576 Cores with 750 GB Ram |
| Storage : 2.8 TB + 5 TB |
| Yamato |
| Operating System: |
| 14 G9 Nodes with 48 cores, 128 GB RAM per node |
| Totals: 672 Cores with 1.8 TB RAM |
| Storage: 55 TB |
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Computing Performance
| HP-PROD2 Min |
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Nr Nodes |
GFlops (measured) |
Total Gflops |
Total TFlops |
| G1 |
16.000 |
28.205 |
451.272 |
0.441 |
| G7 |
4.000 |
63.398 |
253.591 |
0.248 |
| G8 |
13.000 |
105.951 |
1 377.363 |
1.345 |
| Total |
33.000 |
197.553 |
2 082.226 |
2.033 |
| Yamato Min |
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Nr Nodes |
GFlops (measured) |
Total Gflops |
Total TFlops |
| G9 |
14.000 |
99.062 |
1 386.872 |
1.354 |
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| Total |
14.000 |
99.062 |
1 386.872 |
1.354 |
| HP-PROD2 Ave |
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Nr Nodes |
GFlops (measured) |
Total Gflops |
Total TFlops |
| G1 |
16.000 |
55.891 |
894.260 |
0.873 |
| G7 |
4.000 |
121.001 |
484.004 |
0.473 |
| G8 |
13.000 |
242.624 |
3 154.113 |
3.080 |
| Total |
33.000 |
419.516 |
4 532.378 |
4.426 |
| Yamato Ave |
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Nr Nodes |
GFlops (measured) |
Total Gflops |
Total TFlops |
| G9 |
14.000 |
664.012 |
9 296.172 |
9.078 |
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| Total |
14.000 |
664.012 |
9 296.172 |
9.078 |
| HP-PROD2 Max |
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Nr Nodes |
GFlops (measured) |
Total Gflops |
Total TFlops |
| G1 |
16.000 |
74.166 |
1 186.656 |
1.159 |
| G7 |
4.000 |
133.071 |
532.282 |
0.520 |
| G8 |
13.000 |
290.029 |
3 770.373 |
3.682 |
| Total |
33.000 |
497.265 |
5 489.312 |
5.361 |
| Yamato Max |
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Nr Nodes |
GFlops (measured) |
Total Gflops |
Total TFlops |
| G9 |
14.000 |
773.210 |
10 824.943 |
10.571 |
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| Total |
14.000 |
773.210 |
10 824.943 |
10.571 |