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NCSA’s Innovative Systems Laboratory (ISL) conducts research and development around mid- and long-term needs in core computing technology areas. ISL’s focus is on new systems or impact on existing systems using emerging processing, storage and interconnect technologies and novel computing environments. ISL provides support for evaluating and developing new technologies of interest to NCSA programs and projects and NCSA academic and industrial partners.

Resources includeExperimental platforms currently available or under development:

  • Cloud computing
    • Virtual Lab for Advanced Design testbed consisting of 4 compute nodes, 3 storage nodes, 2 controller nodes, and 2 10Gb SDN switches.
    • OpenStack cloud
    with 32 VM servers
  • Hadoop cluster with 6 HDFS/Map-Reduce nodes
  • HPC cluster with 8 compute nodes
  • Intel Xeon Phi server with 2 Xeon Phi 7120 (Knights Corner) application accelerators
    • deployed on a 32-node cluster with dual-CPU dual-core AMD chips, NVIDIA Tesla S1070 GPUs, and QDR InfiniBand interconnect.
    • OpenStack cloud deployed on an 8-node cluster with dual-CPU 6-core AMD Istanbul chips, NVIDIA C2050 GPUs, and QDR InfiniBand interconnect.
  • Storage
    • Seagate ClusterStor CS9000 Lustre parallel storage system and ClusterStor A200 tiered active archive object store.
    • CEPH storage cluster consisting of 5 Supermicro storage nodes with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 CPUs, 128 GB RAM, 10Gb interconnect.
    • High-density archival storage system with 4 JBOD nodes.
  • HPC clusters
    • HPC cluster consisting of 8 nodes with dual CPU 6-core E5-2620 v3 chips, 128 GB RAM, 8 AMD Radeon Fury Nano GPUs, and QDR InfiniBand interconnect.
    • HPC cluster consisting of 5 nodes with dual-CPU E5-2609 v3 chips, 2x Intel Xeon Phi 3120 co-processors, NVIDIA Quadro K420 GPU, and QDR InfiniBand interconnect.
  • Unique capabilities/experimental platforms
    • Dell PowerEdge R920 high-memory system with 48 CPU cores and 3TB of RAM.
    • Intel Xeon workstation with 8 Tesla C2050 GPUs.
    • Intel Xeon workstation with NVIDIA GTX980, NVIDIA K40, and 2 Intel Xeon Phi 31S1P co-processors.
    • Intel Xeon workstation with two Intel Xeon Phi 7120P “Knights Corner” co-processors.
    • AMD Opteron A1100-Series developer system with ARM Cortex-A57 SoC.
    • NVIDIA Jetson cluster consisting of 8 Jetson TK1 DevKit boards.
    Server with 8 NVIDIA C2050 GPUs

For more information or to collaborate, please contact Volodymyr Kindratenko (kindr@ncsa.illinois.edu) or visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/org/isl. 

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