Helix/Hardware
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1 System Architecture
The bwForCluster Helix is a high performance supercomputer with high speed interconnect. Is composed of login nodes, compute nodes and parallel storage systems connected by fast data networks. It is connected to the Internet via Baden Württemberg's extended LAN BelWü.
2 Operating System and Software
- Operating system: RedHat
- Queuing system: Slurm
- Access to application software: Environment Modules
3 Compute Nodes
3.1 AMD Nodes
Common features of all AMD nodes:
- Processors: 2 x AMD Milan EPYC 7513
- Processor Frequency: 2.6 GHz
- Number of Cores per Node: 64
- Local disk: None
| CPU Nodes | GPU Nodes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Node Type | cpu | fat | gpu4 | gpu8 | |
| Quantity | 248 | 12 | 29 | 26 | 2 |
| Installed Working Memory (GB) | 256 | 2048 | 256 | 256 | 2048 |
| Available Memory for Jobs (GB) | 248 | 2010 | 248 | 248 | 2010 |
| Interconnect | 1x HDR100 | 1x HDR100 | 2x HDR100 | 2x HDR200 | 4x HDR200 |
| Coprocessors | - | - | 4x Nvidia A40 (48 GB) | 4x Nvidia A100 (40 GB) | 8x Nvidia A100 (80 GB) |
| Number of GPUs | - | - | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| GPU Type | - | - | A40 | A100 | A100 |
3.2 Intel Nodes
Some Intel nodes (Skylake and Cascade Lake) from the predecessor system will be integrated. Details will follow.
