Pople

Pople

Pople was decommisioned on August 31, 2011. All grants will be moved to blacklight. Please contact User Services if you have any questions about this transition.

  • System Configuration

    • System Configuration

    Hardware

    Pople is an SGI Altix 4700 shared-memory NUMA system comprising 192 blades. Each blade holds 2 Itanium2 Montvale 9130M dual-core processors, for a total of 768 cores. Each core has a clock rate of 1.66 GHz and can perform 4 floating point operations per clock cycle. Thus, the total floating point capability of the machine is 5.1 Tflops.

    The four cores on each blade share 8 Gbytes of local memory. The processors are connected by a NUMAlink interconnect. Through this interconnect the local memory on each processor is accessible to all the other processors on the system. Pople runs an enhanced version of the SuSE Linux operating system.

    There are multiple frontend processors, which are also Itanium2 processors and which run the same version of SuSE Linux as the compute processors. You login to one of these frontend processors, not to the compute processors.

    Acknowledgement in Publications

    PSC requests that a copy of any publication (preprint or reprint) resulting from research done on pople be sent to the PSC Allocations Coordinator. We also request that you include an acknowledgement of PSC in your publication.

    Reporting a Problem

    You have several options for reporting problems on pople.

    • If you are a TeraGrid user you can send email to help@teragrid.org, mentioning PSC in the subject line. You will get an acknowledgement from the TeraGrid Operations Center, and then you will be contacted by PSC staff.

    • If you are a non-TeraGrid user you can send email to remarks@psc.edu.

    • You can call the User Services Hotline at 1-800-221-1641 from 9:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m., Eastern time, on weekdays, and from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, on Saturdays.