The UCSD Triton Resource

The UCSD Triton Resource is a new high-performance, data-centric compute resource
housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.  UC Berkeley faculty and researchers
may apply for computing capacity on the Triton Resource through the Triton
Affiliates and Partners Program (TAPP). The resource features exceptional data
analysis capabilities and short wait times. Triton comprises three major components:
the Triton Compute Cluster, the Petascale Data Analysis Facility, and the Data
Oasis. Each [cid:image001.jpg@01CA53EB.28F2EF30] offers unique and powerful
capabilities designed to support data analysis needs on scale with today's most
demanding and data-intensive processing tasks.

• Triton Compute Cluster (TCC). The TCC is a 256-node cluster with dual quad-core
Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processors running at 2.4GHz and 24 gigabytes of memory on
each node.  TCC has a peak theoretical performance of 20 teraFLOPS.
• Petascale Data Analysis Facility (PDAF).  The PDAF is a unique data-intensive
computing system with nodes containing either 256 gigabytes or 512 gigabytes of main
memory and eight AMD OpteronTM (Shanghai) processors (32 cores total) per node
running at 2.5GHz.  PDAF has a peak theoretical performance of 9 teraFLOPS and 9
terabytes of main memory.
• Data Oasis.  Planned for construction in late Fall 2009, Data Oasis is a large
scale storage system with 2-4 petabytes of storage on 3000-6000 disks and 60-120GB/s
throughput.

The system fabric is supplied by a Myricom Myrinet Multiprotocol Switch with 448 MX
ports, 32 ten-gigabit Ethernet ports and 32 expansion ports. This gives the resource
an approximate worst-case MPI latency of 2.4 microseconds and an achievable 1.2
gigabytes per second per network interconnection. The Myrinet fabric is a
full-bisection Clos-topology two-level network. As configured, the bisection
bandwidth of the switch exceeds 500 gigabytes per second (four terabits per second).
 The Triton Compute Cluster and PDAF are connected to each other at full-bisection
bandwidth.

For more information on the Triton Resource, please visit
http://tritonresource.sdsc.edu.

For more information on applying for capacity on the Triton Resource, please contact
Professor Tarek Zohdi<mailto:zohdi@me.berkeley.edu>.