IU Cluster Challenge
Visualization, created by a “ClusterMeister” team member from Technische Universität Dresden, showing the divergence of a calculated vector field in which seismic sources form the word SC08.
The “ClusterMeisters,” a team of undergraduates from Indiana University and Technische Universität Dresden, will compete in the SC08 Cluster Challenge. The goal of the Cluster Challenge competition is to showcase the ability of clusters and open-source software, such as OpenFOAM®, to solve interesting and important problems, and to expose undergraduates to state-of-the-art systems and the best and brightest of their peers.
The IU-TUD team is working with IBM and Myricom to process as much data as possible without exceeding the power constraint. IU Professor Andrew Lumsdaine of the Open Systems Lab and Professor Wolfgang E. Nagel of TUD’s Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) will supervise the team. IBM is providing a new System X iDataplex server, designed to use up to 40% less power than similarly configured standard servers. This provides the team with a cluster that has a performance of over 1 teraFLOP. The Myricom networking equipment also uses significantly less power than other high-performance networking technologies.
