The Collaboration for the Prediction of Red Tides (CPR) maintains and operates a set of computational equipment used to perform the presented research on these web pages. This computational equipment includes the following:

The CPR Cluster

CPR models are currently run on a 32 node, 256 processing core, Infiniband connected Linux cluster built by Aspen Systems. The details of the cluster are:

Master Node and Backup Master/Computational Node (node 1)

– (2) Quad Core Intel Xeon x5355 2.66 GHz processors
– 8 GB DDR2-667 memory
– 250GB SATA hard drive
– IPMI 2.0 card with Virtual Media and KVM over Lan
– Dual Channel 4GB, 2 port fiber channel
– Qlogic single port InfiniPath HCA

Computational Nodes (31)
– (2) Quad Core Intel Xeon x5355 2.66 GHz processors
– 8GB DDR2-667 memory
– 250GB SATA hard drive
– IPMI 2.0 card with Virtual Media and KVM over Lan
– Qlogic single port InfiniPath HCA

Storage Subsystem
– (1) Quad Core Intel Xeon x5335 2.0 GHz processors
– 8GB DDR2-667 memory
– 160GB SATA hard drive
– IPMI 2.0 card with Virtual Media and KVM over Lan
– Dual Channel 4 GB, 2 port fiber channel
– Nexsan SataBoy rackmount Fiber/iSCSI RAID System
– (14) 1TB SATA disks (14TB raw, 11TB usable)
– RAID 6 with 1 hot spare

Disk to Disk Backup Storage System
– Nexsan SATABeast rackmount Fiber/iSCSI RADI System
– (42) 500GB SATA disks (21GB raw, 17GB usable)
– RAID 6 with 2 hot spares

The Development/Processing Workstations

Development of the coupled physical/biological models, analysis of the model output and the processing of satellite images is performed using Linux workstations. These workstations consist of (2) Quad Core Intel Xeon x5450 3.0GHZ processors, 8GB DDR2-667 memory and 1TD SATA disk.