CRESCO2

The CRESCO2 cluster, located in Portici, was part of the ENEA HPC infrastructure and was decommissioned on December 31, 2015.

System Overview

CRESCO2 was composed of compute nodes based on IBM HS21 blade servers equipped with Intel Nehalem and Intel Westmere processors.

The system was interconnected through an InfiniBand network and integrated within the ENEA HPC infrastructure.

Hardware Description

Description of 256 Clovertown nodes decommissioned on 18/11/2014.

Compute nodes N. nodi: 56 Nodi blade IBM HS21 Processors: 2 Xeon Quad-Core Nehalem E5530 RAM: 16 Gbyte RAM Clock: 2.40GHz / 8MB L3 InfiniBand network Totale: 448 core Intel Nehalem

Compute nodes

N. nodi: 28 Nodi blades IBM HS21 Processors: 2 Xeon Quad-Core Westmere E5620 RAM: 16 Gbyte RAM Clock: 2.40GHz / 8MB L3 InfiniBand network Totale: 224 core Intel Westmere

System Architecture

Block architecture of the CRESCO HPC system.

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Node Architecture (Nehalem E5530)

Architecture diagram of the Nehalem E5530 processor.

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Node Architecture (Westmere E5620)

Architecture diagram of the Westmere E5620 processor.

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