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 |
---|---|---|---|
general | 17 | General Usage Pool | 14 Days |
gpu | 3 | GPU Access Pool | 14 Days |
melfu | 2 | Molecular Biology Lab | 14 Days |
Storage Layout
Scratch: ~240TB of scratch disk, mounted on all nodes
Cluster: 41TB of High-Speed Paralllel Fileystem Storage, mounted on all nodes
Per node /local: ~400GB to 1TB, depending on node layout
Node Breakdown
20 Compute Nodes, with ~1800 Cores and ~10TB of RAM total
5 V100 Nvidia TESLA GPU’s with 32GB VRAM per GPU
General Nodes
There are 17 General Purpose nodes, each with:
CPU:
1 x AMD EPYC 7551 @2.55Ghz with 32 Cores / 64 Threads
RAM:
256GB DDR4 @ 2666Mhz
Local Storage
1TB of NVMe SSD’s
GPU Nodes
There are 3 dedicated GPU nodes. They comprise of two ‘Standard’ and One ‘Light’ Node:
Standard GPU Nodes
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
Local Storage
1TB of NVMe
Light GPU Node
CPU:
1 x AMD EPYC 7551 @2.55Gz with 32 Cores / 64 Threads
RAM:
128GB DDR4 @ 2666Mhz
GPU:
1 x TESLA V100 w/ 32GB VRAM
Local Storage
1TB of NVMe
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
Local Storage
1TB of NVMe
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