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
• Hardware
• Acknowledgement in Publications



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.