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Table 1 Hardware specifications of the node types tested in the experiments.

From: Profiling the BLAST bioinformatics application for load balancing on high-performance computing clusters

Node type

CPU model

Release year

Clock (GHz)

Chipset

#CPU /node

#Core /CPU

L2 cache /core (MB)

L3 cache /node (MB)

Memory (GB)

Network interface (ethernet/ infiniband)

I

Gold 6226

2019

2.70

C621

2

12

1

19.25

768

10G Eth

II

X5550

2009

2.67

5550

2

4

0.25

8

48

1G Eth

III

E7-4870

2011

2.40

C602J

4

10

0.25

30

256

1G Eth

IV

E5-2650 v4

2016

2.60

C612

2

12

0.25

30

512

10G Eth

V

E5-4627 v4

2016

2.60

C612

4

10

0.25

25

2048

10G Eth

VI

Silver 4116

2017

2.10

C622

2

12

1

16.5

512

100G IB

  1. Node types are numbered based on their organization within the FDA HPC cluster. Storage to the nodes is provided via DDN storage cluster using IBM Spectrum Scale file system via 56 Gbps Infiniband connection
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