Peloton (super computer)
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The Peloton Super Computer purchase is a program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
intended to provide tera-flop computing capability using commodity Scalable Units (SUs). The Peloton RFP defines the system configurations.
Appro was awarded the contract for Peloton which includes the following machines:
All of the machines run the CHAOS
variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and the Moab
resource management system. Under the project management of John Lee, the team at Synnex, Voltaire, Supermicro and other suppliers, the scientists were able to dramatically reduce the amount of time it took to go from starting the cluster build to actually having hardware here at Livermore in production. In particular, it went from having 4 SUs on the floor on a Thursday, to bring 2 more SUs in for that final cluster and by Saturday, had all of them wired up, burned in, and running Linpack.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , just outside Livermore, California, is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center founded by the University of California in 1952...
intended to provide tera-flop computing capability using commodity Scalable Units (SUs). The Peloton RFP defines the system configurations.
Appro was awarded the contract for Peloton which includes the following machines:
| Machine | Nodes | TPP (TFLops) |
|---|---|---|
| atlas | 1152 | 44.24 |
| hopi | 80 | 2.92 |
| minos | 864 | 33.18 |
| rhea | 576 | 22.12 |
| yana | 80 | 3.07 |
| zeus | 288 | 11.06 |
All of the machines run the CHAOS
CHAOS (Linux Clustering)
CHAOS is a Linux distribution produced within the Livermore Computing center at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It augments the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution with kernel modifications and user-space tools to support HPC clustering...
variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...
and the Moab
Moab Cluster Suite
The Moab Cluster Suite is a cluster workload management package, available from Adaptive Computing, Inc., that integrates the scheduling, managing, monitoring and reporting of cluster workloads. Moab Cluster Suite simplifies and unifies management across one or multiple hardware, operating system,...
resource management system. Under the project management of John Lee, the team at Synnex, Voltaire, Supermicro and other suppliers, the scientists were able to dramatically reduce the amount of time it took to go from starting the cluster build to actually having hardware here at Livermore in production. In particular, it went from having 4 SUs on the floor on a Thursday, to bring 2 more SUs in for that final cluster and by Saturday, had all of them wired up, burned in, and running Linpack.