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Monash Sun Grid High Perfomance Compute Cluster History

The Monash Sun Grid  (MSG-I) was commissioned in April 2005 initially compromising 36 "nodes" (72 Operton CPUs).

In May 2006 a further 24 "nodes" (48 CPU cores) were added (MSG-II). In 2007 MSG-III was established with the purchase of two Sun 6000 series Blade chassis comprising 20 "nodes" (80 CPU cores) including 40 CPU cores with extended RAM (8GB per core) for memory-intensive applications. In addition, a further 11 "nodes" (22 CPU cores) were added to MSG-I and MSG-II in 2007 bringing the Monash Sun Grid to its then total of 214 CPU cores and 680GB of RAM.

ClusterRAM /coreGflop /coreMflop /WattNo. of CPU cores
    20052006200720082009
                 
MSG-I 2 GB 4.8 20 64 64 70 70  
MSG-II 2 GB 5.2 42   48 48 64 64
MSG-III 2 GB 10.0 340       40 720
MSG-IIIe 10 GB 5.2 65       40 120
MSG-IV 2 GB 9.2 245         96
MSG Total                
Cores       64 112 118 214 1000
RAM       128 GB 224 GB 236 GB 680 GB 3.1 TB
Gflop/s       307 557 586 1,085 9,040
Mflop/W       20 26 26 38 214
                 
Brecca 1.8 GB 2.8 17     180 128  
Gflop/s           504 358  
Power           30 kW 21 kW  
                 
MCG TOTAL                
Gflop/s       307 557 1,090 1,443 7,840
Power       15 kW 21 kW 52 kW 50 kW 42 kW

The Monash Sun Grid compute facility is further described here. It is a component of the Monash Campus Grid.

Related Projects

Large Research Data Store

The LaRDS project provides hundreds of tera bytes of additional storage for Monash researchers.  This storage is available for access via the Monash Sun Grid and other platforms.

 

Monash Campus Grid (MCG) Programme

Together, MSG and LaRDS form major foundation components in the development of a Monash Campus Grid (MCG) facility.

  
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