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Saturn Personal Clusters


Affordable, personal cluster computing power.

Available with integrated parallel file system storage ready to use right out of the box.

Saturn brings serious sixteen processor, 64-bit cluster computing power to your desk in a compact, quiet and affordable package.

Small footprint—Big performance
Saturn is a powerful, remarkably compact and easy-to-manage personal GNU/Linux cluster featuring the energy-efficient AMD Opteron HE processors. Available with eight or sixteen processor cores, 8Gbps total gigabit ethernet bandwidth, up to 64GB DDR400 system RAM, and over 64 gigaflops peak performance, Saturn brings serious 64-bit cluster computing power to your desk.

Incredibly easy to manage
Saturn systems are as easy to manage as a PC. Rocketcalc Houston cluster management software and included Ganglia monitoring software provide a simple, intuitive interface for cluster monitoring and control. Turnkey Saturn Unicluster™ systems arrive with Novell SUSE Linux and a wide selection of available, optimized and ready-to-run HPC software applications, including up to 3 Terabytes of cluster-wide PVFS2 storage. Saturn systems are easy to integrate with existing GNU/Linux, Apple and Windows workstations.

Quiet, Cool and Efficient
Saturn systems feature the power-efficient, high-performance 64-bit AMD Opteron HE processors. Powered from a standard wall outlet, the Saturn chassis provides significant airflow without generating excessive noise.

Airflow illustration

Unmatched versatility
Well-suited to office, lab and classroom use, Saturn fits in where bulky, noisy rack systems do not. Available configurations include turnkey Rocketcalc Unicluster systems with up to 3TB of available internal SATA disk storage.

Links
•  Flyer (PDF)
•  Request a quote

Key Features
•  Dimensions: 14in. x 12.5in. x 22.5in.
•  Easily build larger clusters from multiple systems
•  Four nodes, each with two dual- or single-core AMD Opteron HE processors with Direct Connect Architecture
•  1MB 16-way set associative L2 cache/128KB L1 cache per processor core
•  Up to 16GB Registered ECC DDR 400MHz SDRAM per node
•  8Gbps total low-latency (21μs TCP/IP) gigabit ethernet bandwidth
•  Included Houston and Ganglia cluster control and monitoring software tools

Performance
Saturn clusters deliver best-in-class performance/price ratios. The benchmarks below were run on a Saturn 270HE system with 16 2GHz AMD Opteron processor cores, 16GB DDR 400MHz RAM, and a single 400GB SATA hard disk with SuSE 9.3 and gcc 3.3.3 and LAM/MPI 7.1. The math kernel library for Linpack was the libgoto_opteron64p-r1.00 library by Kazushige Goto (available from http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/software).

Peak floating-point performance 64 GFlop/s
HP LINPACK Performance 48 GFlop/s
NAMD 2.6b1 apoa1 benchmark 0.22s/step
Netpipe 3.6.2 LAM/MPI latency 0.23 μs
Netpipe 3.6.2 peak bandwidth 900Mb/s
(Even higher bandwidth is available when both gigabit channels are used.)

Other benchmarks are available from AMD: Opteron Competitive Server Benchmarks

Pricing and Availability
Contact Rocketcalc for pricing and availability. Academic and government discounts may apply.


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