CSEP Hardware Inventory

The SCEC CSEP Testing Center includes computers, networking, and storage capabilies hosted on USC campus. Below is an inventory of the current CSEP computing hardware, and storage capabilities at USC.

CSEP CURRENT HARDWARE (6/16)

• CSEP-OP (SAME)
  • 32 core Intel Xeon E5-2670@2.60GHZ
  • 132Gb RAM
  • 13.5 TB total storage

• CSEP-CERT (SAME)
  • 32 core Intel Xeon E5-2670@2.60GHZ
  • 198Gb RAM
  • 5.4 TB total storage

• CSEP-DEVEL (Expanded to 4 nodes, same build)
  • Four - 8 core Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.50GHz
  • 12Gb RAM
  • 0.6 TB storage

• CSEP-CANTERBURY (UPGRADED)
  • 24 core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz
  • 132Gb RAM
  • 16 TB storage

Storage estimate for new forecasts classes within SCEC Testing Center

• High-resolution 0.1degree Global testing region (per year)
  • 1-day forecasts (KJSS)
    • 5Tb (if using uncompressed original and HDF5 formats of forecasts)
    • 750Gb (if using gzip-compressed original and HDF5 formats of forecasts)
  • 1-year forecasts (KJSS, SHIFT_GSRM)
    • 50Gb (if using uncompressed original and HDF5 formats of forecasts)

• CA testing region (per year)
  • 30-minutes forecasts (ETAS, ETASPPE): 1.5Tb
    • Disable publishing of forecasts to preserve storage on publishing server (only 22Gb disk space left as of 2014/03/03)
    • Switch to event-based testing

Related Entries

• CSEP
• SCEC Home Page