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: 05/20/2008

Computers || Products || Libraries || Batch

Computers

 bluevista blueice bluefire lightning DA cluster
breeze, gale, gust, hail		 windom
Vendor IBM IBM IBM IBM HP Sun
Model p5-575 p5-575+ p5-575+ e1350
cluster		 nodes SunFire 440
OS AIX AIX AIX Linux Linux Solaris
OS version 5.3.0.42 5.3.0.53 5.3.8.1 2.6.5-7 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp 5.10
CPUs (=cores) 624 1,744 4,064 256 4 CPUs
8-16 cores		 4
Total Memory on Batch Nodes 1.25 TB 4.1 TB 10.56 TB 512 GB 64 GB per node 8.2 GB
Users4 Comm./CSL Comm./CSL Comm./CSL Comm./CSL Comm./CSL Comm.
Charging units6 GAUs GAUs GAUs GAUs - -
Computer factor6 0.87 0.87 TBD 0.34 - -

 

Products

 bluevista blueice bluefire lightning DA cluster windom
c Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Visual Age
9.0.0.2		 Portland Group
6.2		 Intel
icc 10.0.023		 SUNWspro
5.7
c++ Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Visual Age
8.0.0.5		 Visual Age
9.0.0.2		 Portland Group
6.2		 Intel
icc 10.0.023		 SUNWspro
5.7
cosconvert1
cosfile1       
cossplit1     
 (legacy)10 (legacy)10 (legacy)10 (legacy)10 (legacy)10 (legacy)10
f77 xlf 10.1.0.4 xlf 10.1.0.4 xlf 11.1.0.1 Portland Group
6.2		 Intel
ifort 10.0.023		 SUNWspro
8.1
f90 xlf 10.1.0.4 xlf 10.1.0.4 xlf 11.1.0.1 Portland Group
6.2		 Intel
ifort 10.0.023		 SUNWspro
8.1
flint 4.37 - - - - -
GPFS 2.3.0.10 3.1.0.6 3.2.1.1 - Remote mounted
e.g. bluefire		 -
idl - - - - 6.2 6.0
ImageMagick 5.4.2 6.2.75 by request5 6.2.7 6.0.75 6.0.8
LSF 6.2 6.2 7.0 6.2 - -
mathematica - - - - - 6.0
matlab - - - - 2008a 7.3
MPI MPI-2 MPI-2 MPI-2 MPICH-GM MPICH
user-supported		 -
msread/mswrite y y y y y y
ms* (all others) 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0
NAGware - - - - - f77
NCAR Graphics 4.4.2 4.4.2 4.4.2 4.4.0 4.4.2 4.4.2
NetCDF Operators (NCO) 3.1.2 3.1.2 TBD - 3.9.5 -
NCL 4.3.1 4.3.1 4.3.1 4.3.1 4.3.1 4.3.1
OpenMP y y y y y -
perl 5.8.2 5.8.2 5.8.2 5.8.3 5.8.5 5.6.0
POE 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.5 4.3.2.1 - - -
RSCT (CSM) 1.5.0.2 1.5.1.3 2.4.9.1 - - -
sas - - - - - 8.2
ssh y y y y y y
Splus8 - - - - - 5.1
TotalView 7.3.0-2 7.3.0-2 TBD - - -
v77to90 - - - - - 4.4D

 

Libraries10

 bluevista blueice bluefire lightning DA cluster windom
alfpack (legacy) - - - - -
blas (vendor) - y - - y3 y
complib.sgimath (SGI vendor) use ESSL use ESSL use ESSL use PGI use MKL use sunperf
ecmfft (legacy) - - - - - -
eda (legacy) - - - - - -
eispack (legacy) - - - - - -
essl (vendor) 4.2.0.4 4.2.0.4 4.3.0.2 - - -
fftpack (legacy) - - - - - -
fishpak (legacy) - - - - - -
fitpack (legacy) - - - - - -
hdf (third-party) 5-1.6.35 4.1r3 - - - 4.1r1
imsl (third-party) - - - - - -
lapack (third-party) /contrib /contrib - PGI /contrib sunperf
linpack (legacy) - - - - - -
mass, massv (vendor) y y y - - -
mss (local) y y y y y y
mudpack (legacy) - - - - - -
nag (third-party) - - - - - -
ncaru10 (legacy) - - - - - -
netcdf (local) 3.6.0 3.6.1 TBD 3.6.1 NCL version 3.5.1
pessl (vendor) 3.2.0.0 3.2.0.1 3.3.0.2 - - -
regridpack (legacy) - - - - - -
scsl (SGI vendor) - - - - - -
sphere (legacy) 3.0 3.0 TBD - 3.0 -
craylib1 (legacy) - - - - - -

 

Accepts batch jobs via

 bluevista blueice bluefire lightning DA cluster windom
Network Queuing Environment (qsub) n n n n n n
Load Sharing Facility (bsub) y 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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