Thank you for your interest in the Silicon Mechanics Research Cluster Grant
We have been delighted by the number of you that have visited this page,
and by all of the applications that we have received. The application period
has now ended, but we encourage you to return on March 15
to see who the grant recipient is.
This grant program is open to all US and Canadian qualified
post-secondary institutions, university-affiliated research
institutions, non-profit research institutions, and researchers
at federal labs with university affiliations.
We hope you will consider this opportunity to support your research
by submitting a proposal, or by forwarding this to others in your
department who could benefit through this grant.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at
research-grant@siliconmechanics.com.
Rules
- Open to all US and Canadian qualified post-secondary institutions,
university-affiliated research institutions, non-profit research
institutions, and researchers at federal labs with university
affiliations.
- Submissions will be accepted from November 14, 2011 through
February 15, 2012. The grant recipient will be announced on
March 15, 2012.
- Submissions will be reviewed for merit and related impacts.
- Applications should be submitted in .rtf or .doc format.
- Applications should be no longer than 3-5 pages, and must address
the application questions on page 2 of the application package.
- Along with your application, you must submit a signed copy of the
affirmations (below the Application Questions) in electronic format.
- The cluster is covered by standard warranties from Silicon
Mechanics and its partners.
- Neither Silicon Mechanics nor its partners will be responsible
for any costs incurred by the awarded organization as part of
installing, operating, or managing the cluster.
- Neither Silicon Mechanics nor its partners make any claim to any
research on or intellectual property generated or deployed on the
Research Cluster Grant or used in the Competition Submission.
Completed application packages should be submitted in electronic
format to research-grant@siliconmechanics.com. If
you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at that same email address.
Research Cluster Hardware Overview
Head Node: Customized 1U Dual-Processor Server (based on Rackform nServ A335)
Supermicro 1U server, with 32GB Kingston DDR3-1333 Low Voltage RAM,
96GB Kingston V+ MLC SSD, 2 x AMD Opteron 6200 CPUs, QLogic QLE-7340
40GbE InfiniBand QDR adapter, and 4 x 1TB Seagate
Constellation.2 SATA drives.
2 GPU Nodes: Rackform nServ A350 1U Dual-Processor GPU-Enabled Server
2 x Supermicro 1U GPU servers, each with 32GB Kingston DDR3-1333
Low Voltage RAM, 96GB Kingston V+ MLC SSD, 2 x AMD Opteron 6200 CPUs,
QLogic QLE-7340 40GbE InfiniBand QDR adapter, and 2 x NVIDIA Tesla Fermi M2090 cGPUs.
8 Compute Nodes: Rackform nServ A4410-IB (2U 4-Node)
2 x Supermicro 2U 4-node servers, each node with 32GB Kingston
DDR3-1333 Low Voltage RAM, 96GB Kingston V+ MLC SSD, 2 x AMD Opteron
6200 CPUs, and QLogic QLE-7340 40GbE InfiniBand QDR adapter.
Networking & Rack:
QLogic IB 12300-BS01 18-Port Switch with Qlogic Fabric Management
Software; HP ProCurve Switch 1810G-24 Port switch; 24U Rack with shock
pallet; spare parts kit
Silicon Mechanics would like to thank the many participating hardware providers for
making this grant possible:
Kingston Technology • QLogic • AMD Opteron • NVIDIA • Supermicro • Seagate
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