Deepthought Cluster
The Deepthought cluster is the first of the HPC clusters
maintained by the Division of Information Technology as a
general campus resource. It was named after the supercomputer from the
science fiction comedy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
After serving the campus research and academic community for well
over a decade it was retired in 2018 due to the cost of maintaining it
as a reliable and viable cluster outpaced its value as a research tool.
Individual hardware components were replaced and upgraded through its lifetime, so that none of the original hardware remained when it was finally decommissioned. The following lists the variety of hardware on the cluster at the time of its retirement:
| Description | Number of nodes | Processor | Cores/node | Mem/node (GiB) | Mem/core | /tmp size (GB) | Interconnect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nodes1 | 39 | Woodcrest 2.0 GHz | 4 | 4 | 1 | 35 | GigE |
| Nodes2 | 88 | Woodcrest 2.7 GHz | 4 | 8 | 2 | 35 | GigE |
| Nodes3 | 6 | Clovertown 2.3 GHz | 8 | 32 | 4 | 190 | tGigE |
| Nodes4 | 16 | Gainestown 2.3 GHz | 8 | 24 | 3 | 100 | GigE |
| Nodes5 | 6 | Westmere 2.9 GHz | 12 | 24 | 2 | 100 | GigE |
| Nodes6 | 24 | Westmere 2.9 GHz | 12 | 48 | 4 | 100 | GigE |
| Nodes7 | 18 | SandyBridge 2.2 GHz | 16 | 64 | 4 | 190 | GigE |
| Nodes8 | 51 | Clovertown 2.3 GHz | 8 | 8 | 1 | 35 | DDR Infiniband |
| Nodes9 | 56 | Westmere 2.9 GHz | 12 | 24 | 2 | 100 | QDR Infiniband |
| Nodes10 | 4 | SandyBridge 2.2 GHz | 16 | 64 | 4 | 100 | QDR Infiniband |
| Nodes11 | 8 | SandyBridge 2.2 GHz | 16 | 64 | 4 | 400 | FDR Infiniband |
Note
The Deepthought cluster was retired in 2018. It is no longer available for computation. The information in this page is for historical records only.