NEC Cluster Hardware and Architecture (vulcan)

Hardware

• Pre- & Postprocessing node (smp node) [Entgeltordnung: 'smp Knoten']
  • 1 node
    • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6148, 40 cores total @ 2.40GHz
    • 1.5TB memory
    • Nvidia Quadro K6000
    • 2TB HDD mounted on /tmp
    • 13TB HDD mounted on /localscratch
    • shared access

• CascadeLake 40 cores compute nodes (clx)
  • 96 nodes (clx-25, clx384gb40c) [Entgeltordnung: 'Cascadelake 384 GB']
    • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6248, 40 cores total @ 2.50GHz
    • 384GB memory
  • 8 nodes (clx-21, clx384gb40c-ai) [Entgeltordnung: 'CS500-Spark']
    • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6230, 40 cores total @ 2.10GHz
    • 384GB memory
    • 1.8TB NVMe mounted at /localscratch

• CascadeLake 36 cores compute nodes (clx-ai) for artificial intelligence and big data applications [Entgeltordnung: 'CS Storm']
  • 4 nodes (clx768gb36c-ai)
    • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6240, 36 cores total @ 2.60GHz
    • 768GB memory
    • 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 SXM2 32GB
    • 7.3TB NVMe mounted at /localscratch
    • 220GB SSD mounted at /tmp

• Haswell 24 Cores compute nodes (hsw) (only available on vulcan2)
  • 2x Intel Xeon E5-2668v3, 24 cores total @ 2.50GHz
  • 192 nodes (hsw128gb24c) [Entgeltordnung: 'Haswell 128 GB']
    • 128GB memory

• Skylake 40 Cores compute nodes (skl) [Entgeltordnung: 'SKL-192GB']
  • 72 (skl192gb40c)
    • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6138, 40 cores total | 2.00GHz
    • 192GB memory

• AMD 64 Cores compute nodes (genoa)
  • 60 nodes (genoa768gb64c)
    • 2x AMD Epyc 9334 Genoa, 2.7GHz base, 64 cores total
    • 768GB DDR5 memory

• AMD 64 Cores SMP nodes (genoa-smp)
  • 2 nodes (genoa3072gb64c-smp)
    • 2x AMD Epyc 9334 Genoa, 2.7GHz base, 64 cores total
    • 3072GB DDR5 memory

• Visualisation node with GPUs
  • 2x Intel Xeon Silver 4112, 8 cores total @ 2.60GHz
  • 96GB memory
  • 6 nodes (visamd) [Entgeltordnung: 'Graphikserver AMD']
    • AMD Radeon Pro WX8200
  • 1 node (visnv) [Entgeltordnung: 'Graphikserver NVIDIA']
    • Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000

• Visualisation/GPGPU graphic nodes (visp100) [Entgeltordnung: 'VISP 100']
  • 10 nodes
    • 2x Intel Xeon E5-2667v4, 16 cores total @ 3.20GHz
    • 256GB memory
    • Nvidia Tesla P100 12GB
    • 3.7TB SSD mounted at /localscratch
    • 400GB SSD mounted at /tmp

• AMD GPU nodes (genoa-a30)
  • 24 nodes
    • 2x AMD Epyc 9124 Genoa, 3.0GHz base, 32 cores total
    • 768GB DDR5 memory
    • 3.8TB NVMe mounted at /localscratch
    • Nvidia A30 with 24GB HBM2e

• Interconnect: InfiniBand
  • Various generations of Infiniband switches with QDR, FDR, EDR and HDR speed

Architecture

The NEC Cluster platform (vulcan) consists of several frontend nodes for interactive access (for access details see Access) and several compute nodes of different types for execution of parallel programs. Some parts of the compute nodes comes from the old NEC Cluster laki.

Compute node types installed:

• Haswell, Skylake, CascadeLake
• different Memory nodes (128GB, 256GB, 384GB)
• Pre-Postprocessing node with very large memory (1.5TB)
• Visualisation/GPU nodes with AMD Radeon Pro WX8200, Nvidia Quadro RTX4000 or Nvidia Tesla P100
• KI nodes with Nvidia Tesla V100
• Vector nodes with NEC Aurora TSUBASA CPUs

Features

• Operating System: Centos 7
• Batchsystem: PBSPro
• node-node interconnect: Infiniband + GigE
• Global Disk 2.2 PB (lustre) for vulcan + 500TB (lustre) for vulcan2
• Many Software Packages for Development