MPI/Pro on Mississippi State University super clusterStarkville 12 July 2001 MPI Software Technology said that the new 330 processor super cluster at The Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Mississippi State University installed its high-performance software MPI/Pro.
The 165 node cluster is composed of SGI(TM) 1100
compute nodes, each with dual 1 GHz Intel Pentium III processors and 1 GB of
RAM. A dual processor SGI 1200 is used as a head node, which brings the total
size of the cluster to 330 processors with 165 GB of RAM. The cluster runs the
Red Hat Linux operating system and is connected to fast ethernet switches
with gigabit ethernet uplinks. It runs MPI/Pro for Linux, a product of MSTI.
MPI/Pro is a commercial-grade implementation of the MPI (Message Passing
Interface) standard. MPI defines how information is transferred among multiple
processors all working together on related programs. MPI/Pro improves the
performance of parallel jobs on clusters running applications such as CFD
(computational fluid dynamics), weather modeling, and seismic exploration. The
cluster is used to run CFD applications in the Computational Simulation and
Design Center at the ERC.
Mississippi State University has a long history in cluster computing.
Mississippi State built its first cluster in 1987, and this particular cluster
is the fifth generation cluster built on that legacy.
The cluster has a theoretical peak performance of 329.6 Gigaflops. The June 2001
Top500 Supercomputer Sites List published at the 16th International
Supercomputer Conference in Heidelburg, Germany, lists the cluster as the 158th
most powerful computer in the world, and the 13th most powerful academic system
in the U.S.
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