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Energy Prospecting Technology Builds High Performance Oil and Gas Exploration Cluster

Energy Prospecting Technology

EPT needed to have a powerful platform that would be capable of running demanding parallel petroleum exploration codes. However, they were faced with a tight window to find an advanced solution that would not disrupt the company's core business, as well as a fixed budget within which to work, so they turned to AMAX for a powerful cluster that would give them a competitive performance edge.

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ClusterMax™ Apex | High Performance Supercomputing Cluster

HPC Cluster Solution for CPU-Intensive, Large Scale Deployments

Future proof system with massive scalability for large scale deployments

AMAX's ClusterMax™ Apex Supercomputer Cluster is ideal for large-scale deployments that integrate the latest CPU-based computing technologies and require extreme performance and high-density computing. Based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 series or AMD Opteron 6300 series, the ClusterMax™ Apex features up to 1,344 Intel Xeon® or 2,688 AMD Opteron processor cores per 42U standard rack cabinet, doubling the density compared with traditional rack mounted servers.

AMAX's ClusterMax™ Apex Supercomputer Cluster offers customers performance scalability, industry leading density and maximum efficiency at scale for applications ranging from in-memory databases, to a diverse set of data and compute-intensive HPC applications.

Application

Specifications

Intel Platform

AMD Platform

The world’s first 16-core x86 processor,delivering a rich mix of performance, scalability and efficiency for today’s highly threaded computing environments.
AMD Turbo Core technology – digitally boosting all cores simultaneously up to 500MHz or up to 1GHz with half the cores active.
Technical applications like HPC can take advantage of the innovative design of the new Flex FP that brings 256-bit floating point processing to the mainstream with more throughput for both 128-bit and 256-bit technical applications
FMAC units in the Flex FP help boost computational horsepower of HPC and technical applications, driving more performance by executing FMA4 instructions that execute complex calculations in half the cycles; AVX and SSE instructions can also be performed in one cycle on the two different Flex FP pipelines
Straight-through computing helps ensure that there are no bottlenecks or compromises — when the workload grows up to 16 tasks each has their own dedicated core, with maximum memory and I/O speed available on every processor models

ClusterMax™ Apex AMD Platform Datasheet

Cluster Specifications:

36 nodes 1U 4-Way AMD Opteron 6300 series supercomputer cluster per 42U rack
Up to 144 AMD Opteron 6300 processor series, Socket G34, and 2,304 CPU cores (Quad processors per node)
Up to 18TB DDR3 Registered ECC 1333/1066/800Mhz system memory
Supports low voltage 1.35V DDR3 memory
Up to 324TB hot swap storage capacity
High speed interconnect with ConnectX-2 QDR Infiniband 40Gbps, QSFP
Dedicated on-board management port, providing a flexible and secure management environment
IPMI 2.0 with KVM over LAN and Virtual Media over LAN
1400W High-efficiency Gold-level power supply with PMBus (93%+)
Power-efficient cooling subsystem designs
High efficiency VRMs (Voltage Regulator Module)
Dynamic fan speed control and intelligent power management

Cluster Features:

Delivers high availability, scalability, flexibility and power efficiency in a dense cluster architecture
Addresses today's natural business growth of mid to large-sized HPC and high-density computing
Lowest TCO for support, maintenance and upgradeability
Ideal for mid- to large data centers scaling up to 1,000 nodes

Clustered File Storage (from Terabyte to Petabyte):

Hardware design & software stack
Lustre / Open source file system (Redundancy across system nodes)

Complete Cluster Assembly and Set Up Services:

Fully integrated and pre-packaged turnkey HPC solution, including HPC professional services and support, expert installation and setup of rack-optimized cluster nodes, cabling, rails, and other peripherals
Configuration of cluster nodes AND the network
Installation of applications and clients computers to offer a true replacement of customer's IT department
Rapid deployment
Server management options include Standards-based IPMI or AMAX remote server management
Seamless standard and custom application integration & cluster installation
Cluster management options include a choice of open source software solutions using Rocks+ and MOAB
Firmware upgrades & BIOS modification
Supports a variety of UPS and PDU configuration and interconnect options, including Infiniband (20Gbps, 40Gbps), Fibre channel, and Ethernet (Gigabit, 10GbE)

Optional Cluster System Software Installed:

Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
StackIQ Rocks+
Platform Computing HPC / PCM
Bright Computing Cluster Manager
SuSE / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OSCAR (The Open Source Cluster Applications Resources) clustering software
Luster/Gluster
Rocks cluster
High availability/failover cluster

Cluster Specifications:

Up to 84 nodes with Intel Xeon processor E5 processors series and 1,0344 Intel CPU cores, or up to 42 nodes with AMD Socket G34 Opteron 6300 processor series and 2,688 AMD CPU cores per 42U cluster
Up to 42TB system memory with Intel Xeon processor E5 series, or up to 21TB system memory with AMD Socket G34 Opteron 6300 processor series per 42U cluster
Up to 504TB hot swap storage capacity with Intel Xeon processor E5 series, or up to 378TB hot swap storage capacity with AMD Socket G34 Opteron 6300 processor series per 42U cluster
High-efficiency gold-level power supply (93%+) with 1+1 redundancy
Power-efficient cooling subsystem designs
High efficiency VRMs (Voltage Regulator Module)
Supports low voltage 1.35V DDR3 memory, delivering 20% power saving
Dynamic fan speed control and intelligent power management
Great serviceability with hot-pluggable dual processor nodes and hot-pluggable PSU
High speed interconnect with QDR/DDR Infiniband and 10GbE Options
Dedicated on-board management port, providing a flexible and secure management environment
IPMI 2.0 with KVM over LAN and Virtual Media over LAN

Cluster Features:

Delivers high availability, scalability, flexibility and power efficiency in a dense cluster architecture Improves RAS with hot-swappable and redundant fans, and hard disk drives
Addresses today's natural business growth of mid to large-sized HPC and high-density computing
Lowest TCO for support, maintenance and upgradeability
Ideal for mid to large data centers scaling up to 1,000 nodes

Complete Cluster Assembly and Set Up Services:

Fully integrated and pre-packaged turnkey HPC solution, including HPC professional services and support, expert installation and setup of rack-optimized cluster nodes, cabling, rails, and other peripherals
Configuration of cluster nodes and the network
Installation of applications and client computers to offer a comprehensive solution for your IT needs
Rapid deployment
Server management options include Standards-based IPMI or AMAX remote server management
Seamless standard and custom application integration and cluster installation
Cluster management options include a choice of open source software solutions using Rocks+ and MOAB
Firmware upgrades & BIOS modification
Supports a variety of UPS and PDU configuration and interconnect options, including Infiniband (20Gbps, 40Gbps), Myrinet, Fibre channel, and Ethernet (Gigabit, 10GbE)

Clustered File Storage (from Terabyte to Petabyte):

Hardware design and software stack
Lustre / Open source file system (Redundancy across system nodes)

Optional Cluster System Software Installed:

Intel Cluster Ready
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
StackIQ Rocks+
Bright Computing Cluster Manager
SuSE / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Beowulf Cluster
OSCAR (The Open Source Cluster Applications Resources) cluster
Luster/Gluster
Rocks cluster
High availability/failover cluster
Virtualization cluster
Visualization cluster
GPGPU cluster

Key Features:

High density balanced compute solution for large scale power conscious users.
Based on new Intel Sandy Bridge architecture for best in class performance.
Integrated web based cluster management for turnkey provisioning and hassle free management.
Optimized MPI implementations and pre tuned networking components to get parallel application up and running.
Highly scalable, modular architecture with FDR Infiniband and PCIe Gen 3.0 support.
Support for next generation FDR InfiniBand PCIe 3.0 fabric offers 56Gb/s bandwidth with 1us MPI ping latency. With 160ns latency non-blocking switch configuration, the ClusterMax™ Apex can tackle most challenging problems in "standalone mode" or "in unison."

Applications: