Balena HPC shutdown
IMPORTANT: Action required
14 November 2022: We will soon begin decommissioning the Balena HPC cluster. Find out when core services will be cut-off and what you need to do.
Hardware specifications
Processor and memory
| Intel Ivybridge | Intel Skylake | |
|---|---|---|
| Total number of nodes | 196 | 17 |
| Number of CPU cores | 3,136 | 408 |
| Memory per core | 4GB, 8GB or 32GB | 8GB |
| Memory per node | 64GB, 128GB or 512GB | 192GB |
| Total memory | 15.8TBs | 3.2TBs |
| Performance (Rpeak) | 63.2 TFLOPS | 16.0 TFLOPS (AVX2) or 23.3 TFLOPS (AVX512) |
| Linpack performance (HPL) | 87.3% of Rpeak |
- Intel Ivybridge nodes are dual socket nodes with E5-2650v2 processors, 2.6GHz with 8 cores
- Intel Skylake nodes are dual socket nodes with Gold 6126, 2.6GHz with 12 cores
- Two high-capacity nodes with 512GB of memory
- Two high-end visualisation nodes
Network
- Intel TrueScale 40GB/s Infiniband
- 10GbE for data and 1GbE for management
Multi-core accelerators
- NVIDIA Kepler K20x
- NVIDIA Pascal P100
- AMD S10000
- Intel Xeon Phi 5110p
Storage
- 5GB home area per user
- 0.6PBs of non-archival parallel filesystem based on BeeGFS
- Research data storage available on login nodes
Software environment
- Scientific Linux Operating System (OS) (based on RedHat)
- SLURM scheduler
- Module-based software environments
- Intel and GNU C and Fortran compilers
- Intel and OpenSource Math libraries and MPI libraries
- Intel and Allinea debugger and profiling tools
- Allinea Performance Report tools
Access
- Connect via Secure Shell (SSH) or visualisation service
- Interactive test and development sessions
- Workloads submitted to the batch scheduler