Carter (supercomputer)

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Carter is a supercomputer installed at Purdue University in the fall of
2011 in a partnership with Intel. The high-performance computing cluster
is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's
central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters
named Steele built in 2008, Coates built in 2009, Rossmann built in
2010, and Hansen built in the summer of 2011. Carter was the fastest
campus supercomputer in the U.S. outside a national center when built.
It was one of the first clusters to employ Intel's second generation Xenon
E-5 "Sandy Bridge" processor and ranked 54th on the November 2011
TOP500 list, making it Purdue's first Top 100-ranked research
computing system.[1][2]
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ReferencesHardware[edit]
The Carter cluster consists of HP Proliant compute nodes with two 8-
core Intel Xeon-E5 processors (16 cores per node), either 32 gigabytes
or 64 GB of memory, and a 500 GB system disk. NVIDIA Tesla GPU-
accelerated nodes also are available. All nodes have 56 Gbit/s FDR
Infiniband connections from Mellanox. Carter was the first cluster to
employ this generation of Mellanox interconnects.
Software[edit]
Carter nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) and Carter uses
Moab Workload Manager 6 and TORQUE Resource Manager 3 as the
portable batch system (PBS) for resource and job management. The
cluster also has compilers and scientific programming libraries installed.
Funding[edit]
The Carter supercomputer and Purdue's other clusters are part of the
Purdue Community Cluster Program, a partnership between ITaP and
Purdue faculty. In Purdue's program, a "community" cluster is funded by
hardware money from grants, faculty startup packages, institutional
funds and other sources. ITaP's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
administers the community clusters and provides user support. Each
faculty partner always has ready access to the capacity he or she
purchases and potentially to more computing power when the nodes of
other investors are idle. Unused, or opportunistic, cycles from Carter are
made available to the National Science Foundation's Extreme Science
and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) system and the Open
Science Grid.
Users[edit]
The Purdue departments and schools by which Carter and Purdue's
clusters are used vary broadly, including Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Agriculture, Agronomy, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil
Engineering, Communications, Computer and Information Technology,
Computer Science, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical
and Computer Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering,
Materials Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medicinal
Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Physics, the Purdue Terrestrial
Observatory and Statistics, among others.
DiaGrid[edit]
Unused, or opportunistic, cycles from Carter are made available to
XSEDE and the Open Science Grid using Condor software. Coates is
part of Purdue's distributed computing Condor flock, which is the largest
publicly disclosed distributed computing system in the world and the
center of DiaGrid, a nearly 43,000-processor Condor-powered
distributed computing network for research involving Purdue and
partners at nine other campuses.
Naming[edit]
The Carter cluster is named for Dennis Lee Carter, the retired vice
president for marketing of Intel, who received his master's degree in
electrical engineering from Purdue in 1974. He is credited with creating
and implementing the internationally recognized “Intel Inside” campaign,
spurred by what Carter says was his recognition at the dawn of the PC
age that Intel needed to begin talking to the general public, not just to
the PC company design engineers who had been its traditional focus.[3]
The campaign created the first broad brand awareness of a
microprocessor as a key ingredient in a personal computer and made
Intel’s logo a feature on the outside of most of the world’s PCs, while its
five-note jingle became one of the most recognizable tunes on
television. Carter also worked with Intel President Andy Grove to create
the iconic Pentium brand name. The Carter cluster continues ITaP's
practice of naming new supercomputers after notable figures in Purdue's
computing history.
External links[edit]
• "Carter". Purdue University.
References[edit]
• "Purdue builds nation's fastest campus supercomputer". Purdue
University.
• "Purdue names supercomputer after creator of 'Intel Inside'".
Purdue University.
• "New Carter cluster is one of the greenest, as well as fastest, in
the world". Purdue University.
• Meyer, Leila. "Purdue Builds Top-100 Supercomputer on
Unreleased Chips". Campus Technology.
• "Purdue University Builds new HPC cluster with Intel Xeon
processor E5-2670". Intel.
• "Dennis Lee Carter". Purdue University.
• "Information Technology at Purdue". Purdue University.
• "Rosen Center for Advanced Computing". Purdue University.
1 ^ "Purdue builds nation's fastest campus supercomputer" (Press release).
November 14, 2011.
2 ^ "Purdue's new supercomputer offers more power". Daily Herald
(Arlington Heights). April 12, 2011.
3 ^ "Interview with Dennis Carter". April 20, 2004.
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