In ScienceNode Jan Zverina gives details about the Comet supercomputer in San Diego especially for use by Open Science Grid users. Comet is a Dell-integrated cluster using Intel's Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 family, with two processors per node and 12 cores per processor running at 2.5 GHz. According to Jan Zverina, each compute node has 128 GB (gigabytes) of traditional DRAM and 320 GB of local flash memory. There are 27 racks of these compute nodes, totaling 1,944 nodes or 46,656 cores. In addition Comet has four large-memory nodes, each with four 16-core processors and 1.5 TB of memory, as well as 36 GPU nodes, each with four NVIDIA GPUs.
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