Frost
Frost was operated for SMHI for weather forecasting. Since 2015, SMHI and MET Norway were using Frost for weather forecasting for Sweden and Norway through the MetCoOp collaboration project.
The Frost cluster had a LINPACK performance of approximately 189 Teraflop/sec using all 5,984 compute cores.
The system was delivered in the end of 2014 by ClusterVision and made available to users in March 2015. The cluster was decommissioned in the spring of 2019 and its nodes moved to the SMHI research and development cluster Bi.
System Details
| Hardware | Custom design based on ASUS servers |
| Processors | 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2640v3 processors at 2.6 GHz |
| Number of compute nodes | 374 |
| Compute nodes | 2 sockets (16 cores) and 64 GB memory |
| Login node | 2 sockets (16 cores) and 256 GB memory |
| High speed interconnect | Intel Truescale Infiniband QDR |
| Node scratch storage | 153 TiB (420 GB per node) |
| Global file system | Dedicated I/O system |
| Operating system | CentOS Linux 6 |
| Batch queue system | Slurm |
Who could use Frost?
Access to Frost was granted by SMHI.
User Area
