Center for High Performance Computing

Services & Equipment

Hardware

2 x ACTserv x1210 (32-cores, 192GB)

  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • Memory: 192GB – 12x 16GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 2x 240GB SATA 2.5″ solid state drives

14 x Dual Socket Xeon SP (32-cores, 768GB) node[01-14]

  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • Memory: 768GB – 12x 64GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 256GB M.2 NVMe solid state drives

18 x Dual Socket Xeon SP (32-cores, 384GB) node[15-32]

  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • Memory: 384GB – 12x 32GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 256GB M.2 NVMe solid state drives

ACTserv x1210 (36-cores, 3TB) highmem01

  • Processor: 2x Intel 18-Core Xeon Gold 6240L 2.6GHz – 150W
  • Memory: 3TB – 24x 128GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 256GB M.2 NVMe solid state drives

ACT SYS-2049U-TR4 (24-cores, 3TB) highmem02

  • Processor: 2x Intel 12-Core Xeon Gold 6226 2.7GHz – 125W
  • Memory: 3TB – 48x 64GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 240GB solid state drives

18 x Dual Socket Xeon SP (32-cores, 384GB) node[15-32]

  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • Memory: 384GB – 12x 32GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 256GB M.2 NVMe solid state drives

ACTserv x2280c (32-cores, 384GB) gpu01

  • GPU: 4x NVIDIA Tesla A100 PCI-E Passive Single GPU each with 40GB of GDDR5 memory
  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • CPU Memory: 384GB – 12x 32GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 6x 2.5″ SATA hotswap, 2x U.2 NVMe drive bays

Note: Each pair of GPUs are connected via NVLink

ACTserv x2280c (32-cores, 768GB) gpu02

  • GPU: 4x NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCI-E Passive Single GPU each with 32GB of GDDR5 memory
  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • CPU Memory: 768GB – 12x 64GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 6x 2.5″ SATA hotswap, 2x U.2 NVMe drive bays

ACTserv x2280c (32-cores, 768GB) gpu03

  • GPU: 2x NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCI-E Passive Single GPU each with 32GB of GDDR5 memory
  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • CPU Memory: 768GB – 12x 64GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 6x 2.5″ SATA hotswap, 2x U.2 NVMe drive bays

2 x ACTserv x2280c (32-cores, 384GB) gpu[04-05]

  • GPU: 2x NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCI-E Passive Single GPU each with 32GB of GDDR5 memory
  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • CPU Memory: 384GB – 12x 32GB DDR4 2933MHz Storage: 6x 2.5″ SATA hotswap, 2x U.2 NVMe drive bays

ACTserv x4170c (24-cores, 384GB) gpu06

  • GPU: 4x NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCI-E Passive Single GPU each with 32GB of GDDR5 memory
  • Processor: 2x Intel 12-Core Xeon Gold 6216 2.6GHz – 125W
  • CPU Memory: 384GB – 12x 32GB DDR4 2666MHz

ACTserv x4170c (24-cores, 384GB) gpu07

  • GPU: 3x NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCI-E Passive Single GPU each with 32GB of GDDR5 memory
  • Processor: 2x Intel 12-Core Xeon Gold 6216 2.6GHz – 125W
  • CPU Memory: 384GB – 12x 32GB DDR4 2666MHz

ACTserv x4170c (24-cores, 384GB) gpu08

  • GPU: 2x NVIDIA Tesla T4 PCI-E Passive Single GPU each with 16GB of GDDR6 memory
  • Processor: 2x Intel 12-Core Xeon Gold 6216 2.6GHz – 125W
  • CPU Memory: 384GB – 12x 32GB DDR4 2666MHz

4 x ACTserv x1210 (32-cores, 192GB)

  • Processor: 2x Intel 16-Core Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz – 150W
  • Memory: 192GB – 12x 16GB DDR4 2933MHz
  • Storage: 2x 240GB SATA 2.5″ solid state drives

3 x BeeGFS HDD storage block

  • Enclosure: 4U, 60 drive JBOD with redundant SAS expanders
  • Storage: 480TB usable – 6GB/s (60x 10TB)
  • Fabric: ConnectX-6 VPI adapter card, HDR-100 IB (100Gb/s) and 100GbE, single-port QSFP56, PCIe3/4 x16 Slot

2 x BeeGFS meta data server

  • Memory: 192GB – (12x 16GB DIMMs)
  • Metadata storage: 4x 3.2TB PCIe NVMe 2.5″ solid state drives
  • Fabric: ConnectX-6 VPI adapter card, HDR-100 IB (100Gb/s) and 100GbE, single-port QSFP56, PCIe3/4 x16 Slot

1 x HDR Network

  • IB switch: 1x 40 port IB HDR (200Gb/s) – QSFP ports
  • Used IB ports: 38x HDR-100 ports
  • Unused ports: 42x HDR-100 available ports for expansion – 21x HDR-200 physical
  • Node cables: 19x 2 Meter HDR Infiniband Cable – 1x QSFP (200Gb/s) to 2x QSFP (100Gb/s)

Software

Open source software packages are installed as requested. Commercial packages require a discussion about licensing. We maintain local mailing lists for select software packages. 

  • AFNI
  • ANTS
  • AMBER
  • CMAKE
  • CUDA
  • DRAMMS
  • FREESURFER
  • FSL
  • GATE
  • GAUSSIAN
  • GCC
  • GEANT4
  • GO
  • INTEL
  • ITK-SNAP
  • JUPYTER NOTEBOOK
  • MATLAB COMPILER RUNTIME
  • MATLAB INTERACTIVE
  • MATLAB PARALLEL SERVER
  • MPICH
  • MRICRON
  • MVAPICH2
  • OPEN MPI
  • PERL
  • PLINK
  • PYTHON
  • R
  • ROOT
  • SINGULARITY
  • VNC (Remote Desktop)

Training

The CHPC, in collaboration with the university’s Becker Library, offers a series of trainings and workshops on computer basics for users who have no prior experience with Linux OS and high performance computing. We also provide basic programming training in Python, R, and MATLAB.

Services Overview

  • Access to a professionally managed High Performance Computing System (3,780 high speed processing-cores, >40 TB of combined memory, 20 Volta-class GPUs, 74 Tesla-class GPUs, and ~1.6 PB of internal high speed shared storage)
  • Access to pre-installed software packages that support molecular modeling, genomic analysis, advanced imaging, statistics and mathematical analysis
  • Access to software development tools, including both the Intel compilers and MPI libraries
  • Support for user access and the ability to request new software be added to the system
  • Consultation with CHPC staff on parallel computing and software optimization

Contact Us

If you have any questions or would like more information, email Malcolm Tobias, PhD.

FAQ

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