CSC Systems

Frost

Frost is a 2048-processor experimental IBM BlueGene/L system utilized by a research consortium including the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Colorado at Denver. The system is located at NCAR's Mesa Lab facility in Boulder and run by NCAR's Scientific Computing Division with assistance from CSC researchers.

The CSC has been involved with Frost since its initial proposal and uses the system for experiments with scalable numerical methods for climate modeling as well as systems engineering for massively parallel computing platforms.

Hemisphere

Hemisphere is an 64-node Atipa cluster that provides the bulk of the CSC's computational resources at the University of Colorado.

Each Hemisphere node contains dual 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon processors and 2GB of memory. Hemisphere features a Dolphin 2D torus interconnect for high-performance MPI parallel processing.

Occam

Occam is a 27-node IBM PowerPC 970 Blade Cluster.

Each compute node contains dual PowerPC 970 processors and 2.5 GB of memory. Occam is networked with Gigabit Ethernet, and is ideal for batch processing and parameter studies.

Toaster

Toaster is a single-node system containing dual Intel Xeon EMT64 processors and 8 GB RAM. As a EMT64 machine, Toaster is used for heterogeneous systems research projects and running jobs that require large amounts of memory.