Jesper de Jong wrote:What operating system is running on those machines, and is there a JVM for it? I would like to play with a machine like that
The host is running Scientific Linux (a Red Hat 6.4 enterprise derivative) and the coprocessor is running Intel's MPSS (
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-manycore-platform-software-stack-mpss) which I haven't been able to log into yet.
Right now the sys admin is having trouble with NFS so ssh is disabled. I expect to be able to answer the JVM question soon.
This is a university cluster with something like 5000 cores, I believe 20 nVidia K10's and 10 Xeon Phi. I'm not sure how many clusters are actually in the collaboration but I have login privileges on 5 that are similar in specs. It's an amazing amount of resources.
In case your interested this is the LIGO project (
http://www.ligo.org). We're currently in year 3 of a 4 year upgrade to the instruments. When we go into Science mode late 2014 or early 2015 we expect to be recording data at the rate of something like 2PB/yr.
Boggles my mind.
Joe