System Architecture

Ultron is a beowulf cluster consisting of the following components:

Head node with 24TB ultra-fast SSD storage for user homes
12 total compute nodes
10 Compute nodes each have dual 14-core Intel 2.4GHz E5-2680 v4 CPU’s
2 Compute nodes each have dual 10-core Intel 2.4GHz E5-2640 v4 CPU’s
10 Compute nodes each have 256GB RAM
2 Compute nodes each have 128GB RAM
Compute nodes each have 512GB SSD’s for local scratch space (/local)
Four Nvidia Tesla K80’s are available for GP-GPU / CUDA calculations on node10)
Eight Nvidia Tesla K80’s are available for GP-GPU / CUDA calculations on node11)
Eight Nvidia Tesla K80’s are available for GP-GPU / CUDA calculations on node12)
Cluster communication is via 56Gb/s FDR Infiniband

In total, there are 320 Xeon cores and 2.82TB RAM (CPU cores and RAM)
In total, there are 49,920 CUDA cores and 240GB GDDR5 (GPU cores and RAM)