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Cheetah Network

LUMS hosts a variety of HPC resources to cater to the different needs of its students and researchers. Following are the hardware specification of one of such resources, The Cheetah Network.

Cheetah Cluster

  • Number of Cores: 504
  • Memory: 2.6 TB
  • Internal Storage: 28 TB
  • Performance: Theoretical 18 Tflops computing capability (16.8 Flops CPU + 1.2 Tflops GPU)
  • Open-source Linux (Rocks)

Tflops => Tera floating-point operations per second (1012)

Networking:

Based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet utilizing S6720-54Ce1 48port gigabit switch

Rack/Housing:

  • 42 U Huawei Rack
  • KVM 64 Port

Resources:

Core Switches: Huawei S6720-54c-EI for intercommunication 10 G with Throughput of 2.56 Tbps

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Specifications

Management Node:

  • Model: Huawei RH2288 v3
Processor Memory Internal Storage Quantity
Intel® Xeon® 2 x 2680 v3 series processor (24 core) 8 x 8G = 128GB
DDR4 		Hard disk configurations:
4 x 1.2 TB (RAID10) 		1

Computing Node:

  • Model: XH622
Processor Memory Internal Storage Quantity
Intel® Xeon® 2 x 2580 v3 series processor (24 core) 8 x 8G = 128GB
DDR4 		Hard disk configurations:
2 x 600GB (RAID 0)
*Only one GPU k40M (1 node only) 		20

External Storage:

  • Model: OceanStor 5300 V3
Processor Memory Internal Storage Quantity
2 x 6 Core CPU 2 x 16G Cache Hard disk configurations:
- 4 x (600GB 2.5" SSD)
- 10 x (1.2Tb SAS 10k)
- 12 x (4000GB 3.5" NL SAS) 		1