Epic is a HP commodity linux cluster housed in a Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD). It runs CentOS 6.1, a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is made up of 25 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures each of which contains 16 double-dense HP ProLiant BL2x220c G6 Blades. Each of the compute node contains two hex-core Intel Xeon X5660 processors operating at 2.8 GHz with 24 GB of RAM. In total, there are 800 compute nodes providing 9600 cores and 18 TB of RAM to iVEC researchers. Each node contains a quad data rate (QDR) Infiniband card.
Epic is part of The Pawsey Centre project, an $80m Australian Government Super Science Initiative that aims to bolster Australia’s bid for the Square Kilometre Array through the creation of the Pawsey Centre, a petascale supercomputing facility that will support radio astronomy efforts and boost Western Australian supercomputing resources for data-intensive sciences.
- Access to Epic is provided by epic.ivec.org.
- Epic uses the Lustre filesystem to provided a high-speed, global filesystem to all nodes in the system
- Epic uses environment modules to access software
- Epic uses PBS Pro to provided resource management and scheduling, operating on two dedicated nodes
- Epic uses the open-source Open MPI software for allowing jobs to scale across multiple nodes
- Monitor the status of Epic
- Please click here to download documentation and notes for use of the Paraview software as a remote visualisation server (650KB PDF).