Lifetime Service
- Installed: 06/26/2012
- Retired: 10/12/2016
- Hours: 11,026,118
- Jobs: 3,373,513
- Users: 228
- Groups: 31
- Top Groups: Purdue Northwest, Wagstaff Group
Overview of Peregrine 1
Peregrine 1 was a state-of-the-art cluster for the Purdue Calumet campus operated by ITaP from the West Lafayette campus. Installed on June 26, 2012, Peregrine 1 was the second major research cluster to have been hosted on the Calumet campus. The cluster was consequently relocated to the West Lafayette campus on August 19, 2015. Peregrine 1 consisted of HP compute nodes with two 8-core Intel Xeon-E5 processors (16 cores per node) and either 32 GB or 64 GB of memory. All nodes also featured 56 Gbps FDR Infiniband connections. Peregrine 1 was retired on October 12, 2016.
Peregrine 1 Detailed Hardware Specification
| Sub-Cluster | Number of Nodes | Processors per Node | Cores per Node | Memory per Node | Retired in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 29 | Two 8-Core Intel Xeon-E5 | 16 | 32 GB | 2016 |
Peregrine 1 nodes ran Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) and used Moab Workload Manager 8 and TORQUE Resource Manager 5 as the portable batch system (PBS) for resource and job management.