Central Components

• Login-Nodes (tauruslogin[3-6].hrsk.tu-dresden.de)
  • each with 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
  • IPs: 141.30.73.[102-105]
• 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)
  • IPs: 141.30.73.82/83
• Direct access to these nodes is granted via IP whitelisting (contact hpcsupport@zih.tu-dresden.de) - otherwise use TU Dresden VPN.

Island 7 - AMD Rome CPUs

• 192 nodes, each with
  • 2x AMD EPYC CPU 7702 (64 cores) @ 2.0GHz, MultiThreading enabled,
  • 512 GB RAM
  • 200 GB /tmp on local SSD local disk
• Hostnames: taurusi[7001-7192]
• SLURM partition romeo
• more information under RomeNodes

Large SMP System HPE Superdome Flex

• 32 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8276M CPU @ 2.20GHz (28 cores)
• 47 TB RAM
• currently configured as one single node
  • Hostname: taurussmp8
• SLURM partition julia
• more information under HPE SD Flex

Island 4 to 6 - Intel Haswell CPUs

• 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

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

• 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)

SMP Nodes - up to 2 TB RAM

• 5 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 2 Phase 1 - Intel Sandybridge CPUs + NVIDIA K20x GPUs

• 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