Computing nodes

Brief technical details about the cluster #

The cluster contains one main headnode (desert), one auxiliary node (coral), and 36 compute nodes (n[01-36]).

Main node `desert` #

6 cores (one 6-core processor Intel Xeon Bronze 3204).
RAM: 256 GB.
HDD: system disk 480 GB.
RAID-6 disk 140 TB for user data.
OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 (x86_64).

Auxiliary headnode `coral` #

Server Alkazar R2D56 G3.
16 cores (two 8-core processors Intel Xeon E5-2630v3@2.40GHz).
RAM: 64 GB.
HDD: system disk 240 GB.
RAID-6 disk 90 TB for user data.
OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 (x86_64).

Auxiliary headnode `emerald` #

Server Alkazar R4D57SM G6
36 cores (two 18-core processors Intel Xeon Gold 6354).
RAM: 1024 GB.
HDD: system disk 960 GB.
RAID-6 disk 308 TB for user data. RAID-6 disk 308 TB for user data. RAID-5 disk 44 TB for user data.
OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 (x86_64).

Compute nodes `n[01-36]` #

Compute Node Arbyte Alkazar R2Q50 G5.
40 cores (two 20-core processors Intel Xeon Gold 6230@2.10GHz).
RAM: 384 GB.
HDD: 480 GB SSD.
Each node have a local disk for user data under path /var/tmp (415 GB).
OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 (x86_64).

Compute nodes `n[37-38]` #

Compute Node Arbyte Alkazar R1Tw50SM G5.
24 cores (two 12-core processors Intel Xeon Silver 4214@2.20GHz).
RAM: 128 GB.
HDD: 480 GB SSD.
Each node have a local disk for user data under path /var/tmp (415 GB).
OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 (x86_64).

Summary table #

	Nodes	Core per node	Total cores	RAM	HDD	Queues
desert	–	6	–	256 GB	140 TB	–
coral	–	16	–	64 GB	90 TB	–
emerald	–	36	–	1024 GB	660 TB	–
n01–n36	36	40	1440	384 GB	415 GB	`normal` (32 nodes), `short` (1 node)
n37–n38	2	24	48	128 GB	415 GB	offline
TOTAL	38	–	1488	–	–	–

Nodes n[25,26,28,37,38] are temporarily offline. Node n27 is temporarily moved to short queue.