• 3 dual-processor dual-core (4 cores/node) 64-bit 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 2218 with 8 GB of memory logon nodes in a round-robin configuration for resiliency
• 1 quad-processor dual-core (8 cores/node) 64-bit 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 8218 logon node with 32 GB of memory for applications that make use of a Graphical user Interface (GUI)
• 384 dual-processor dual-core (4 cores/node) 64-bit 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 2218 worker nodes giving a total of 1536 cores. Most of these nodes  have 8 GB of memory with 16 of them having 16 GB
• 3 quad-processor dual-core (8 cores/node) 64-bit 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 8218 worker nodes with 32 GB of memory
• over 150 TB (raw) disk space primarily allocated to BlueBEAR users using IBM's GPFS cluster file system

The theoretical peak performance of the compute nodes is 1560 (cores) * 2.6 (GHz) * 2 (floating point operations/cycle) = 8.1 TFlop/s

The operating system is Scientific Linux 5.2 with the ability to run Scientific Linux 4.7 for applications that require this.

If you are staff or a research postgraduate, then please review the left hand navigation panel to get more information about the applications we provide and how to submit these jobs and see the BlueBEAR Registration information for help on gaining access to the cluster. The User Guidelines discuss the initial resources that are allocated to new users and how to apply for additional resources such as the ability to run jobs in excess of the default walltime limit and additional disk space.

If you have used BlueBEAR to help you with your research and you have been published, please can you fill in this form which will help us to publicise your work and greatly assist us in making the case to the University for ongoing HPC resources.

If you have issues or problems then please don't hesitate in contacting the IT Service Desk.

However for more information or comments, we can be contacted by emailing us on bearinfo@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Last Updated: 3 February 2012