Coates

Overview of Coates

The Coates community cluster was installed July 21, 2009. Coates is the largest academic entirely 10GigE cluster in the world. If you are interesting in buying into Coates, please fill out our online order form.

Namesake

Coates is named in honor of Ben Coates, former head of Electrical Engineering and founder of both the Computer Engineering degree program and the Engineering Computer Network (ECN) at Purdue. More information about his life and impact on Purdue is available in an RCAC Biography of Ben Coates.

Detailed Hardware Specification

Coates consists of logical sub-clusters, each with a different memory/storage configuration as described in the following table. All nodes in the cluster feature 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE).

Processor Cores per Node Memory per Node Interconnect Disk
Dual 2.5 GHz Quad-Core AMD 2380 8 16 GB 10 GigE 500 GB
Dual 2.5 GHz Quad-Core AMD 2380 8 32 GB 10 GigE 500 GB
Dual 2.5 GHz Quad-Core AMD 2380 8 16 GB 10 GigE 2 TB
Dual 2.5 GHz Quad-Core AMD 2380 8 32 GB 10 GigE 2 TB
Dual 2.5 GHz Quad-Core AMD 2380 8 128 GB 10 GigE 2 TB
Quad 2.5 GHz Quad-Core AMD 8380 16 128 GB 10 GigE 2 TB

Coates nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) and use PBSPro 9.x for resource and job management. Operating system patches are applied monthly or as security needs dictate. All nodes are configured to allow for unlimited stack usage, as well as unlimited core dump size (though disk space and server quotas may still be a limiting factor).

About Ben Coates