It is our goal to offer an "always-on" service for the throughput components of the HRSK-II installation. Hence the system design differs from the HRSK-I throughput component "deimos". Taurus consists of a total of three loosely coupled sub-clusters, called islands.

Central Components

• Login-Nodes of phase 2 (tauruslogin3/4/5.hrsk.tu-dresden.de)
  • 2 Servers (2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 each with 12 cores @ 2.50GHz, MultiThreading Disabled, 64 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD local disk)
  • Access restricted to TU Dresden network (use VPN from external machines)
  • IPs: 172.26.94.54/55/56
• Transfer-Nodes (taurusexport3/4.hrsk.tu-dresden.de, DNS Alias taurusexport.hrsk.tu-dresden.de)
  • 2 Servers without interactive login, only available via file transfer protocols (rsync, ftp)
  • Access to these nodes is granted via IP whitelisting (contact hpcsupport@zih.tu-dresden.de)
  • IPs: 141.30.73.82/83

SMP Nodes - up to 2 TB RAM

• 2 Nodes each with 4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4650L (8 cores) @ 2.60GHz, MultiThreading Disabled, 1 TB RAM, 1 TB local disk
  • Hostname: taurussmp[1-2]
  • SLURM Partition smp1
  • Node topology
• 4 Nodes each with 4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-4850 v3 (14 cores) @ 2.20GHz, MultiThreading Disabled, 2 TB RAM
  • Hostname: taurussmp[3-7]
  • SLURM Partition smp2
  • Node topology

Island 1 - Intel Sandybridge CPus (directly water cooled)

• 270 nodes, each with 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 (8 cores) @ 2.90GHz, MultiThreading Disabled, 128 GB SSD local disk
• Hostname: taurusi1[001-270]
• varying amounts of main memory (selected automatically by the batch system for you according to your job requirements)
  • 228 nodes with 2 GB RAM per core (32 GB total): taurusi[1001-1220,1226-1229,1253-1254,1262-1263]
  • 28 nodes with 4 GB RAM per core (64 GB total): taurusi[1221-1225,1230-1252]
  • 14 nodes with 8 GB RAM per core (128 GB total): taurusi[1255-1261,1264-1270]
• SLURM Partition sandy
• Node topology

Island 2 Phase 1 - Intel Sandybridge CPUs + NVIDIA K20x GPUs (air cooled)

• 44 nodes, each with 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2450 (8 cores) @ 2.10GHz, MultiThreading Disabled, 48 GB RAM (3 GB per core), 128 GB SSD local disk, 2x NVIDIA Tesla K20x (6 GB GDDR RAM) GPUs
• Hostname: taurusi2[001-044]
• SLURM Partition gpu1
• Node topology (without GPUs)

Island 2 Phase 2 - Intel Haswell CPUs + NVIDIA K80 GPUs (air cooled)

• 64 nodes, each with 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-E5-2680 v3 (12 cores) @ 2.50GHz, MultiThreading Disabled, 64 GB RAM (2.67 GB per core), 128 GB SSD local disk, 4x NVIDIA Tesla K80 (12 GB GDDR RAM) GPUs
• Hostname: taurusi2[045-108]
• SLURM Partition gpu
• Node topology (without GPUs)

Island 3 - Intel Westmere CPUs (air cooled)

• 180 nodes, each with 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 (6 cores) @ 2.80GHz, MultiThreading disabled, 48 GB RAM (4 GB per core), 128 GB SSD local disk
• Hostname: taurusi3[001-180]
• SLURM Partition west
• Node topology

Island 4 to 6 - Intel Haswell CPUs (directly water cooled)

• 1456 nodes, each with 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 (12 cores) @ 2.50GHz, MultiThreading disabled, 128 GB SSD local disk
• Hostname: taurusi4[001-232], taurusi5[001-612], taurusi6[001-612]
• varying amounts of main memory (selected automatically by the batch system for you according to your job requirements)
  • 1328 nodes with 2.67 GB RAM per core (64 GB total): taurusi[4001-4104,5001-5612,6001-6612]
  • 84 nodes with 5.34 GB RAM per core (128 GB total): taurusi[4105-4188]
  • 44 nodes with 10.67 GB RAM per core (256 GB total): taurusi[4189-4232]
• SLURM Partition haswell
• Node topology

Extension of Island 4 with Broadwell CPUs

• 32 nodes, eachs witch 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz (14 cores) , MultiThreading disabled, 64 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD local disk
• from the users' perspective: Broadwell is like Haswell
• Hostname: taurusi[4233-4264]
• SLURM partition broadwell