BinAC2/Hardware and Architecture

System Architecture

The bwForCluster BinAC 2 supports researchers from the broader fields of Bioinformatics, Astrophysics, and Geosciences.

Operating System and Software

• Operating System: ...
• Queuing System: Slurm (see BinAC2/Slurm for help)
• (Scientific) Libraries and Software: Environment Modules

Compute Nodes

BinAC 2 offers compute nodes, high-mem nodes, and two types of GPU nodes.

• 148 compute nodes
• 14 SMP node
• 32 GPU nodes (A30)
• 8 GPU nodes (A100)
• plus several special purpose nodes for login, interactive jobs, etc.

Compute node specification:

	Standard	High-Mem	GPU (A30)	GPU (A100)
Quantity	148	14	32	8
Processors	2 x AMD EPYC Milan 7543	2 x AMD EPYC Milan 7443	2 x AMD EPYC Milan 7543	2 x AMD EPYC Milan 7543
Processor Frequency (GHz)	2.80	2.85	2.80	2.80
Number of Cores	64	48	64	64
Working Memory (GB)	512	2048	512	512
Local Disk (GB)	512 (SSD)	1920 (SSD)	512 (SSD)	512 (SSD)
Interconnect	HDR IB (80 nodes) / 100GbE	HDR	HDR	HDR
Coprocessors	-	-	2 x NVIDIA A30 (24 GB ECC HBM2, NVLink	4 x NVIDIA A100 (80 GB ECC HBM2e)