NCAR computers, products, and libraries

These charts provide current specifications for NCAR's supercomputing systems. They include hardware specifications, sofware products installed, mathematical and statistical libraries installed, and the facilities each system can use to accept batch jobs.

Last update: 08/17/2007

Computers || Products || Libraries || Batch

Computers

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Vendor IBM IBM IBM SGI Sun
Model p5-575 p5-575+ e1350
cluster		 Origin
3800		 SunFire 440
OS AIX AIX Linux Irix Solaris
OS version 5.3.0.42 5.3.0.53 2.6.5-7 6.5 5.10
CPUs 624 1,744 256 128 4
Total Memory 1.25 TB 4.1 TB 512 GB 64 GB 8.2 GB
Users4 Comm./CSL Comm./CSL Comm./CSL Comm./CSL Comm.
Charging units6 GAUs GAUs - - -
Computer factor6 0.87 0.87 0.34 - -

 

Products

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c Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Portland Group
6.2		 MIPSpro
7.4.3		 SUNWspro
5.7
c++ Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Portland Group
6.2		 MIPSpro
7.4.3		 SUNWspro
5.7
cosconvert1
cosfile1       
cossplit1     
 (legacy)10 (legacy)10 (legacy)10 (legacy)10 (legacy)10
f77 xlf 10.1.0.4 xlf 10.1.0.4 Portland Group
6.2		 MIPSpro
7.4.3		 SUNWspro
8.1
f90 xlf 10.1.0.4 xlf 10.1.0.4 Portland Group
6.2		 MIPSpro
7.4.3		 SUNWspro
8.1
flint 4.37 - - - -
GPFS 2.3.0.10 3.1.0.6 - - -
idl - - - 6.1 6.0
ImageMagick 5.4.2 6.2.75 6.2.7 5.3.65 6.0.8
LSF 6.2 6.2 6.2 - -
mathematica - - - - 6.0
matlab - - - 6.5 7.3
MPI MPI-2 MPI-2 MPICH-GM MPI-12 -
msread/mswrite y y y y y
ms* (all others) 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0
NAGware - - - - f77
NCAR Graphics 4.4.2 4.4.2 4.4.0 4.4.2 4.4.2
NetCDF Operators (NCO) 3.1.2 3.1.2 - 3.1.2 -
NCL 4.3.1 4.3.1 4.3.1 4.3.1 4.3.1
OpenMP y y y y -
perl 5.8.2 5.8.2 5.8.3 5.004-05 5.6.0
POE 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.5 - - -
CSM 1.5.0.2 1.5.1.3 - - -
sas - - - - 8.2
ssh y y y y y
Splus8 - - - - 5.1
TotalView 7.3.0-2 7.3.0-2 - 8.1.0-1 -
v77to90 - - - - 4.4D

 

Libraries10

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alfpack (legacy) - - - y -
blas (vendor) - y - y3 y
complib.sgimath (vendor) - - - y -
ecmfft (legacy) - - - y -
eda (legacy) - - - y -
eispack (legacy) - - - y3 -
essl (vendor) 4.2.0.4 4.2.0.4 - - -
fftpack (legacy) - 4.1 - 4.1 4.1
fishpak (legacy) - 3.2 - - -
fitpack (legacy) - y5 - y -
hdf (third-party) 5-1.6.35 4.1r3 - 4.1r3 4.1r1
imsl (third-party) - - - 3.0.1 -
lapack (third-party) y y y7 y3 -
linpack (legacy) - y5 - y3 -
mass, massv (vendor) y y - - -
mss (local) y y y y -
mudpack (legacy) - - - - -
nag (third-party) - - - y -
ncaru10 (legacy) - - - - -
netcdf (local) 3.6.0 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.0 3.5.1
pessl (vendor) 3.2.0.0 3.2.0.1 - - -
regridpack (legacy) - 2.1 - - -
scsl (vendor) - - - 1.401 -
sphere (legacy) 3.0 3.0   3.0 -
craylib1 (legacy) - - - - -

 

Accepts batch jobs via

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Network Queuing Environment (qsub) n n n y n
Load Sharing Facility (bsub) y y y n n

Computers || Products || Libraries || Batch

Notes:

For information about licensed products on the IBM computers bluevista, blueice, and lightning, type pmrinfo while logged on to the system.

  1. Downloadable from http://www.dss.ucar.edu/libraries/io/cos_blocking/.
  2. MPI users should load module mpt.
  3. This is a sub-library of library complib.sgimath.
  4. Comm.=Community Computing; CSL=Climate Simulation Lab.
  5. This is in the /contrib/bin directory.
  6. The systems have charging and queue differences. The document Charges for CISL computing resources provides guidance.
  7. This is a sublibrary of the PGI CDK.
  8. Not available after 10/31/2004.
  9. Available under ESSL library of subroutines.
  10. Legacy libraries will be provided in /contrib by user request only, and on the platforms requested only.

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