The Deepthought High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster is the first of the HPC clusters maintained by the Division of Information Technology as a general campus resource. After serving the campus research and academic community for over 10 years (albeit with the addition of hardware over that time), it was finally retired in May 2018 as the cost of maintaining as a reliable and viable cluster outpaced its value as a research tool.
The following table lists the variety of hardware that was on the Deepthought cluster, more or less from older to newer, at the time of its retirement.
| Description | Processor | Number of nodes |
Cores/node | Total Cores | Memory/node GB |
Memory/core GB |
Scratch space per node, GB |
Interconnect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PowerEdge 1950 | Woodcrest, 2.0 GHz | 39 | 4 | 156 | 4 | 1 | 35 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| PowerEdge 1950 | 2.7 GHz | 88 | 4 | 352 | 8 | 2 | 35 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| PowerEdge 1950 | Clovertown/Harpertown 2.3 GHz | 56 | 8 | 448 | 8 | 1 | 35-100 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| PowerEdge 1950 | Clovertown 2.3 GHz | 6 | 8 | 48 | 32 | 4 | 190 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| M610 | Gainestown, 2.3 GHz | 16 | 8 | 128 | 24 | 3 | 100 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| M610 | Westmere, 2.9 GHz | 6 | 12 | 72 | 24 | 2 | 100 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| M610 | Westmere, 2.9 GHz | 24 | 12 | 288 | 48 | 4 | 100 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| M610 | SandyBridge, 2.2 GHz | 18 | 16 | 288 | 64 | 4 | 190 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| PowerEdge 1950 | Clovertown 2.3 GHz | 51 | 8 | 408 | 8 | 1 | 35 | DDR infiniband |
| M610 | Westmere, 2.9 GHz | 56 | 12 | 672 | 24 | 2 | 100 | QDR Infiniband |
| M610 | Westmere, 2.9 GHz | 4 | 12 | 48 | 48 | 4 | 190 | QDR Infiniband |
| M610 | SandyBridge, 2.2 GHz | 4 | 16 | 64 | 64 | 4 | 190 | QDR Infiniband |
| C8220 | SandyBridge, 2.2 GHz | 8 | 16 | 128 | 64 | 4 | 400 | FDR Infiniband |
| TOTALS | 376 | 3100 |