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The CHIMERA system
The CHIMERA system; Blade-type PC cluster
(Cbrc HIgh perforMance clustER for massive Analysis)
The CHIMERA system is a blade-type PC cluster composed of 88 computational nodes. Each node is composed of a PC server (Intel Xeon E5540) of eight cores/16 threads.
For the filesystem, it is equipped with two file servers, by Lustre (user space 60TB) and ZFS (user space 200TB), and it is connected from the computational node by Flex-10 (10GbE) infrastructure.
We utilize this system in genome analysis, protein structure/function prediction, analysis of subcellular networks, and calculations of molecular dynamics/docking/quantum chemistry.
| System Name | : | The CHIMERA system |  |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of nodes | : | 80 (160 CPU, 640 core) | |
| CPU | : | Intel Xeon E5540 2.53GHz | |
| Memory | : | 2.2GB / core | |
| Number of service nodes | : | 8 (16 CPU, 64 core) | |
| CPU | : | Intel Xeon E5550 2.66GHz | |
| Memory | : | 2.0GB / core | |
| File servers | : | NFL (10 TB) Lustre (60 TB) ZFS (200 TB) |
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| Network | : | HP Flex10 |