IBM Blade Server Cluster
 

We are pleased to announce the successful installation, testing, benchmarking and deployment of a 280-processor Linux cluster (IBM eServer Blade Center). This blade server provides St. Jude with significant computational horsepower to address cpu-intensive applications in bioinformatics, structural biology, radiological Sciences etc. here at St. Jude. This system achieved a maximum performance of 614 Gigaflops or 614 billion floating-point operations per second using the LinPack benchmark suite and placed St. Jude on the Top500 Supercomputer list www.Top500.org/list/2003/11 in mid-November 2003.

Registration is underway for Linux Cluster training classes.  The classes will provide you with up-to-date information on the latest enhancements to the IBM Linux Cluster. Training will include: a discussion of: what a cluster is and how it can be used, common terminology, cluster system design, software components, the tradeoffs between scalability, consistency and performance, available cluster file systems, job submission through LSF, compilers and  hands on practice. Contact Scott.Malone@stjude.org for further information.