Do you need a High Performance Cluster Solution?

The University of Cambridge Chemistry Department needed just that and they found exactly what they were looking for when they tested the latest Avantek solution.

By purchasing an Avantek Solution, Chemistry have achieved a cluster of 384 cores in only 16U!

This is what Dr Catherine Pitt said:

"We chose Avantek because the machines have the best price/performance for the end users and are easy to install and manage for the administrators, so everyone is happy".

A high performance, half-width dual server system engineered to maximize compute density.

With support for up to four processors from the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 or 5600 series and 24 DDR3 DIMMs, the Avantek Server System provides all of the benefits of two servers in a single ultra-dense 1U rack-mount system, allowing you to reduce your costs while delivering the increased memory bandwidth and application performance you require.

Features	Benefits
System includes two Intel® Server Boards S5500HV in a single 1U chassis	Delivers all of the benefits of two servers in a single ultra-dense 1U rackmount system
Supports up to four Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 or 5600 series	Four total processors, (two per node) deliver HPC level performance with increased memory bandwidth, improved energy efficiency, lower TCO, and greater application performance.
Extensive DDR3 memory capacity and bandwidth	A total of 24 registered or unbuffered DIMMs (12 per board) at up to 1333 MHz, and 6 memory channels ensure energy-efficient performance for any application.
Independent high-efficiency power supplies	Separate high-efficiency (80 plus) 770-watt power supplies for each node for increased availability and individual system maintenance
Flexible storage configuration	Up to eight hot swap SATA 2.5" HDD (four HDD per node)

Here are some benchmark results from an evaluation of the sample 12 core node.

NODE	Number of Cores	ns/day	Gflops	Mbnf/s	MPI_VS
venus_avantek	12	31.722	42.971	676.801	openmpi
venus_avantek	8	23.617	31.998	504.073	openmpi
venus_avantek	4	12.786	17.334	273	openmpi
venus_avantek	2	6.631	8.983	141.536	openmpi
venus_avantek	1	3.205	4.35	68.376	openmpi

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