Indiana University

 

Systems Information Data Capacitor

The Data Capacitor is a high speed/high bandwidth storage system for research computing that serves all IU campuses and NSF TeraGrid Users. At peak performance, the Data Capacitor has a 14.5 gigabyte per second aggregate transfer rate per second.

System Specifications

Primary Use
High performance parallel file system
Server Information
Processor Cores 4
CPUs 2
Nodes 25
RAM 8GB – 32GB DDR-2
Local Storage 80GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Total TB for Storage 21.6 TB per host
Aggregate I/O 1.6 GBs per host
Further Details
OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4, Kernel 2.6.9
Network 10Gb Ethernet
Storage Connected via 4Gb Fiber Channel to DataDirect Network S2A9550 Storage Controllers
Software Luster 1.6.7