Deepthought: System Specifications

Deepthought is the brand new HPC for Flinders University SA, and available for Flinders Colleges to utilise. The following details the system specifications and node types that are present within the HPC.

Partition Layout

The SLURM Scheduler as the notion of ‘Job Queue’ or ‘Partitions’. These manage resource allocations and job scheduling independent from on-another. At this time, there is a single job-queue for general usage. As resource usage patterns are identified, this may change.

Partition Name	Number of Nodes	Usage / Purpose	Max Runtime
hpc_general	15	General Usage Pool	UNLIMITED
hpc_melfeu	2	Molecular Biology Lab private Nodes.	UNLIMITED

Storage Layout

Scratch: ~80TB of scratch disk, mounted on all nodes

Node Breakdown

• 17 Compute Nodes, with ~1800 Cores and ~10TB of RAM total
• 2 Login Nodes, with High-Availability Failover
• 4 V100 Nvidia TESLA GPU’s with 32GB VRAM per GPU

General Nodes

There are 14 General Purpose nodes, each with:

• CPU:
  • 1 x AMD EPYC 7551 @2.55Ghz with 32 Cores / 64 Threads
• RAM:
  • 256GB DDR4 @ 2666Mhz

GPU Nodes

There are 2 dedicated GPU nodes, each with:

• CPU:
  • 1 x AMD EPYC 7551 @2.55Gz with 32 Cores / 64 Threads
• RAM:
  • 256GB DDR4 @ 2666Mhz
• GPU:
  • 2 x TESLA V100 w/ 32GB VRAM

High Capacity Node

There is are 3 High-Capacity nodes with:

• CPU:
  • 2 x AMD EPYC 7742 @2.25Ghz with 64 Cores / 128 Threads
• RAM:
  • 2TB (1.8TB) DDR4 @ 3200Mhz

Private Nodes

The Flinders University Molecular Biology lab maintains two nodes for their exclusive usage. Access is strictly limited to the Molecular Biology Lab. For completeness, the two nodes are listed here as well.

Melfu General Node

• CPU:
  • 1 x AMD EPYC 7551 @2.55Gz with 32 Cores / 64 Threads
• RAM:
  • 512GB DDR4 @ 1966Mhz

Melfu High-Capacity Node

• CPU:
  • 2 x AMD EPYC 7551 @2.55Gz with 64 Cores / 128 Threads
• RAM:
  • 2TB (1.8TB) DDR4 @ 3200Mhz