Trio 6U Rack Departmental Supercomputer
Ideal for high-performance supercomputing (HPC), the Trio™ Departmental Supercomputer is a 12-socket, 96 DIMM slot, Linux server that offers an excellent balance of processor density, large shared-memory and value in a space-saving 6U form factor.
Trio™
Overview
Our Trio is a 192 core, large memory, rack-mountable, Linux Departmental Supercomputer.
We call our Trio a 'Departmental Supercomputer' because it is very affordable - ideal for scientists, researchers and engineering departments. We cost less because our Trios do not depend on high cost proprietary hardware. We designed our Trios to take advantage of the latest in off-the-shelf technology.
Our Trio Departmental Supercomputer is a Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) high performance computer with a large shared-memory. Each Trio Departmental Supercomputer has twelve 16-core next-generation AMD Opteron™ 6300 series processors (192 cores total) on three 2U server nodes interconnected with 40 Gbps Infiniband. [No expensive Infiniband switch is needed!] Our Trio Departmental Supercomputer is available in two different shard memory configurations:
Our Trio Departmental Supercomputer is rated at 1.6 TeraFLOPS (peak theoretical).
To programmers, our Trio Departmental Supercomputer looks just like a single huge-memory Linux box. Programmers can use standard threading packages to get access to all 192 CPUs and up to 3.0 TeraBytes of memory. With Trio, programmers need not worry about message passing interface programming, which is what supercomputing clusters and other limited memory systems demand. There's also no need to build complex file-access program components; programmers can just read a big dataset into memory and access it as an array.
Try and Buy ProgramWe encourage everone to trial our Departmental Supercomputers. In High Performance Computing (HPC), it's always advantageous to try your specific applications and data sets on the supercomputer you're considering to make sure you're getting exactly what you need.
We give all potential users remote login privileges to our systems at our UMass Boston facility and schedule free time on our machines for them to conduct their own tests. We are confident that our Departmental Supercomputers outperform everyone. Click here to request your own Trio Trial →
Tech Specs
Processors:
192 Cores (Twelve 16-core AMD Opteron™ 6300 Series Processors)
Memory:
96 DIMM sockets with 2 options:
Software:
Linux Support (OpenSUSE 11.4)
DSMP™ Distributed Symmetric Multi-Processing™ Linux kernel extension (enables Symmetric Multi-Processing on a Trio Departmental Supercomputer - a single software image with 1.5 TB or 3.3 TB single shared memory across 3 server nodes with 192 AMD Opteron™ 6200 series cores)
OpenMP, Pthreads, POSIX, MPI
Storage:
Eighteen 3.5" hot swap drive bays with eight options:
Nodes:
Three SuperMicro A+ 2042G-6RF Servers
Node Interconnect::
6 Single-port QSFP 40 Gbps InfiniBand PCIe Host Bus Adapters (No InfiniBand needed)
I/O:
Environment:
6 Redundant 1400-Watt High Efficiency Power Supplies (80 PLUS Gold Certified)
Efficient Front-to-Back Cooling
Power:
1200 W: 100-140V, 50-60 Hz, 10.5-14.7 Amp (per node)
1400 W: 180-240V, 50-60 Hz, 7.2-9.5 Amp (per node)
Dimensions:
Standard 19 inch Rack Mountable
Height-6U (10.5 inches or 267 mm) 19 inch Rack Mountable
Width-17.2 inches (437 mm) 19 inch Rack Mountable
Depth-27.75 inches (705 mm)
Gross Weight:
207 lbs. (93.9kg)
Click here to download a PDF of the Trio Departmental Supercomputer Specification Sheet.
Try and Buy Program
We encourage everone to trial our Departmental Supercomputers. In High Performance Computing (HPC), it's always advantageous to try your specific applications and data sets on the supercomputer you're considering to make sure you're getting exactly what you need.
We give all potential users remote login privileges to our systems at our UMass Boston facility and schedule free time on our machines for them to conduct their own tests. We are confident that our Departmental Supercomputers outperform everyone. Click here to request your own Trio Trial →