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HPC resources in ZIH systems comprise the High Performance Computing and Storage Complex and its extension High Performance Computing – Data Analytics. In total it offers scientists about 60,000 CPU cores and a peak performance of more than 1.5 quadrillion floating point operations per second. The architecture specifically tailored to data-intensive computing, Big Data analytics, and artificial intelligence methods with extensive capabilities for energy measurement and performance monitoring provides ideal conditions to achieve the ambitious research goals of the users and the ZIH.

Island 6 - Intel Haswell CPUs

  • 612 nodes, each with
    • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 (12 cores) @ 2.50 GHz, Multithreading disabled
    • 128 GB local memory on SSD
  • Varying amounts of main memory (selected automatically by the batch system for you according to your job requirements)
  • 594 nodes with 2.67 GB RAM per core (64 GB in total): taurusi[6001-6540,6559-6612]
    • 18 nodes with 10.67 GB RAM per core (256 GB in total): taurusi[6541-6558]
  • Hostnames: taurusi[6001-6612]
  • Slurm Partition: haswell
Node topology

Node topology

Island 2 Phase 2 - Intel Haswell CPUs + NVIDIA K80 GPUs

  • 64 nodes, each with
    • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 (12 cores) @ 2.50 GHz, Multithreading disabled
    • 64 GB RAM (2.67 GB per core)
    • 128 GB local memory on SSD
    • 4 x NVIDIA Tesla K80 (12 GB GDDR RAM) GPUs
  • Hostnames: taurusi[2045-2108]
  • Slurm Partition: gpu2
  • Node topology, same as island 4 - 6

SMP Nodes - up to 2 TB RAM

  • 5 Nodes, each with
    • 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-4850 v3 (14 cores) @ 2.20 GHz, Multithreading disabled
    • 2 TB RAM
  • Hostnames: taurussmp[3-7]
  • Slurm partition: smp2
Node topology

Node topology