Research Group of Prof. Dr. M. Griebel
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Hardware Components

Network components

Current stage of the Parnass2 newtwork 
Fast Ethernet Switch 3 * Bay Networks BayStack 450-HD
Cables 67 * UTP 6 cables, 3 * cascade interconnect cable
Myrinet Switches 4 * Myricom M2M-OCT-SW8
  4 * Myricom M2M-DUAL-SW8
  3 * Myricom M2FM-SW8
Myrinet Cables 12 * M2F-CB-35, 20 * M2M-CL-10,  36 * M2M-CL-6, 
xx * M2M-CL-3,  xx * M2M-CL-2,  8 * M2M-CL-01

 

Network topology

  • stage 1 with 64 processors

  • two-level fat tree with full bisection bandwidth of 41 Gbit/s 

     

     
     

  • stage 2 with 96 processors

  • three-level fat tree with full bisection bandwidth of 61 Gbit/s 
     
     
     
  • stage 3 with 128 processors

  • three-level fat tree with full bisection bandwidth of 82 Gbit/s 
     
     
     
     

    Computing nodes 

     
    Processors 2 * Intel Pentium II, 400 MHz
    Board ASUS P2B-DS,  440BX chip set
    Memory min. 2 * 128 MBytes SDRAM (100MHz)
    Hardrive IBM-DTTA 8.4 Gbyte (UDMA-EIDE)
    Fast Ethernet D-Link DFE 500-TX
    Myrinet Myricom M2-PCI-32B (512kbytes)
    Case Linkworld LCP ATX midi tower
    no graphics adapter, no floppy, no CD-ROM, no keyboard, ...
     

    Some pictures