CLUMEQ (Consortium Laval-UQAM-McGill and Eastern Quebec) was a
Supercomputer based in
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...
founded in 2001 and has received two successive grants from the Canada Foundation for innovation. In 2011 CLUMEQ and its partner organization RQCHP were consolidated into a new consortiu
Calcul Quebéc[https://www.calculquebec.ca/a-propos/historique/ (french)]
Computers
Past
Beowulf Cluster
A Beowulf cluster is a computer cluster of what are normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them. The result is a hig ...
*256 CPUs
*AMD Athlon 1900+
*1.6 GHz and 1.5 GB RAM / CPU
*Myrinet-2000 Switch
*366 GB RAID-5 storage
SGI Origin 3800
*Sixty-four 600 MHz MIPS
R14000
The R10000, code-named "T5", is a RISC microprocessor implementation of the MIPS IV instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by MIPS Technologies, Inc. (MTI), then a division of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). The chief designers are Chris Row ...
microprocessors
*128 GB RAM
*1.6 TB storage
Colosse
* 960
Sun Blade
Sun Blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by Sun Microsystems from 2006 onwards.
In June 2006, Sun announced the AMD Opteron-based Sun Blade 8000 modular blade server system. The Sun Blade 8000 chassis can hold up to 10 Sun Blade X ...
X6275 nodes (7680 cores total)
* 23 TB RAM
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Infiniband
InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. InfiniBand is also us ...
QDR network
* 1000 TB storage
Krylov
* 48
Sun Fire
Fire is a series of server computers introduced in 2001 by Sun Microsystems (since 2010, part of Oracle Corporation). The Sun Fire branding coincided with the introduction of the UltraSPARC III processor, superseding the UltraSPARC II-bas ...
X4100 nodes (300 cores total)
* 384 GB RAM
* 15 TB storage
Guillimin
* 1200 compute nodes * 2 Intel Xeon 5650 hexa-core CPUs per node = 14400 cores @ 2.66 GHz
* 46 TB RAM
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Infiniband
InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. InfiniBand is also us ...
QDR network
* 2 PB storage
References
External links
CLUMEQ official siteThe latest supercomputer, article in McGill Reporter
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