MIPT’S I-SCALARE Laboratory Supercomputer

Features

• Compact size and high performance. We proposed “all-in-one” solution for high load computing segment to meet all customer’s requirements and to minimize the costs of system deployment, service and management. Computing cluster includes 224 computing nodes with two Intel® Xeon® E5–2690 processors each (448 processors, 3584 cores total). MFTI's cluster system was enhanced with 10 TB storage system and communication network was based on high-speed InfiniBand QDR interconnect. The solution included optimized software for creating a high-performance cluster or a private cloud, as well as a subsystem of monitoring and control of software and hardware components. The entire cluster was contained in 2 standard racks taking 2.56 m2 space.
• Liquid cooling. Liquid cooling system of RSC Tornado architecture supported use of Intel® Xeon® E5–2600 processors, which were the highest performing processor models at the time. The architecture also supported 64 GB RAM per node or 14.3 TB RAM for the entire system, which was quite a lot for that time. 
• Improved reliability. Liquid cooling provides high-precision heat dissipation increasing the lifetime of electronic components and improving fault resistance of the entire solution. The design has no moving elements such as fans and regular hard disks (Intel® SSD solid-state drives are used instead). This almost completely removes the noise, prevents vibration and significantly improves system reliability.