The Trio™ Departmental
Supercomputer is a cluster of  three 1U enterprise-class AMD64 4P servers connected together via a low latency 40Gb DDR InfiniBand™  (no switch is needed). Distributed Symmetric MultiProcessing™ (DSMP™) Technology unifies the three servers into a single shared-memory supercomputer under one Linux OS image. Each 1U server is populated with either four 2.8GHz Quad-core or four 2.6GHz Six-core AMD Opteron™ Processors and up to  384 GB of 800MHz DDR2 memory. The result is a shared-memory system, with either 48 or 72 AMD64 cores and 144 to 336 GB of Global Shared-Memory, all under one operating system image. DSMP is not an application (like MPI under Linux), but an extension of  Linux itself, providing a low latency, shared-memory system  at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions offered in this space.

Applications that previously ran only on proprietary platforms that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars can now be hosted at a fraction of the cost. With the availability of the Trio™, Biotech, Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Digital Media and University Departments can afford the most advanced supercomputing capabilities today.

Trio™ Departmental Supercomputer

Supercomputing for the Masses

COTS System Specifications

Processors:...................... 48 - 2.8GHz AMD Opteron™ Cores or
  72 - 2.6GHz AMD Opteron™ Cores

Memory:.......................... 192 GB 800MHz DDR2 (4GB DIMMs)
  384 GB 800MHz DDR2 (8GB DIMMs)

I/O:................................... Dual Gigabit Ethernet

Storage:........................... 9 SATA HDDs  - partitioned as 3 drives:
  1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacity

Node Interconnect:......... 40 Gb/s DDR2 InfiniBand –
  Direct Connect.

Environment:.................. Efficient Front to Back Cooling
  3 x 1000 W High Efficiency
  Power Supplies (cold-swap)

Power Requirements:      3 x 120 VAC @ 15 Amp (peak)

System Dimensions:....... Standard 19" Rack Mount
  Height 3U 5.1 inches (129 mm)
  Width 19 inches (483 mm)
  Depth 30 inches (762 mm)

Trio™ is available in four processor/memory configurations.

* Local-memory (cache): 1 ½ GB of DRAM allocated per core