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Hardware
- 2x interactive login nodes
64bit-processor, AMD Rome (Epyc 7702)
- 2 sockets per node
- 64 core, cTDP reduced from 200W to 165W
- → 128 cores/node
- 2GHz (3.3GHz Boost)
- 512 GiB RAM (8 DIMMs per socket with 32GiB DDR4-3200)
- 2x SSD 480 GB SATA
- 1x SSD 1,92 TB
- 1x interactive GPU node
- 2x NVDIA A40
- 2x AMD Rome (Epyc 7702)
- 512 GiB RAM (8 DIMMs per socket with 32GiB DDR4-3200)
- for testing, Jupyter notebooks, Matlab, ...
240x standard compute nodes (je vier in einem NEC HPC2824Ri-2)
- 256 GiB RAM (8 DIMMs per socket with 16GiB DDR4-3200)
512 GiB NVMe pro Knoten
- 4x fat nodes (jeweils in einem NEC HPC2104Ri-1)
- 4 TiB RAM (16 DIMMs per socket with 128 GiB DDR4-3200)
- 512 GiB NVMe
- 7.68 TiB NVMe
- 1x GPU nodes (1x HPC22G8Ri)
- 4x Nvidia A100/80
- 2x AMD Rome (Epyc 7702)
- 512/1024 GiB RAM
- 3x3.84 TiB = 11.52 TiB NVMe
- More GPU nodes will follow later, after we gained first experience of what you really need, and to offer most recent hardware
- 3x Management nodes
- one AMD 7302P (NEC HPC2104Ri-1) each
- 1 socket
- 16 cores
- 128 GiB RAM (8 DIMMs per socket with 16GiB DDR4-3200)
- 2x SATA 960 GiB SSD
- 1x 1.92 TiB NVMe
- File Storage:
- IBM Spectrum Scale (GxFS)
- Tier 1: 220 TiB NVMe as fast cache and/or burst buffer
- Tier 2: ~5.38 PiB NL-SAS HDD (NetApp EF300)
- future extension of both tiers (capacity, bandwidth) is possible
- Fast interconnect: HDR Infiniband (100 Gb)
- All nodes connected to /isibhv (NFS, 10 Gb ethernet)
- Alma Linux ("free RedHat", version 8.x)
The FESOM2 Benchmark we used for the procurement on 240 Albedo nodes compares to 800 Ollie nodes.
Preliminary schedule for the transition Ollie → Albedo
Disclaimer: We cannot guarantee the following time frame! It is an optimistic view and any step can be delayed by weeks or months! Except the first "Now" step, which is in your hands ;-)
- Now Please start to prepare your directories on /work/ollie for transfer to Albedo!
- Delete data you do not need to keep,
- copy tarballs of valuable data to the tape archive (you should do this anyhow, /work has no backup),
- place a copy of data which you need continuously with fast access to /isibhv.
- We will not transfer data automatically from Ollie to Albedo!! This is a chance to clean up ;-)
- until April
NEC investigates if OmniPath is an alternative for Mellanox Infinband as the fast network in Albedo, because Infiniband would be delivered with a large delay - May
Albedo hardware has arrived at AWI. A small part is installed in the existing server racks and NEC starts to configure the management system and the GxFS file system. Unfortunately, we have to wait until 4 July before all of Albedo can be installed, see below. - 30. June
Ollie hardware support ends. As a prolongation would cost approx. 200.000€, we keep Ollie running w/o support, but with the option to have basic components (file system, network) repaired in case of an emergency (maintenance on demand). So far, we have very good experiences with the service of MegWare and are confident that we found a solution that is cost efficient and sustainable. - 4 July + following week
The floor in the server room has to be enforced. Then, all racks can be installed, the compute nodes, service nodes, disks, switches can be added. Cabling, configuration finalised, and off we go! - July
NEC + computing center start with configuration, software installation, first tests - August
Downtime to add Infiniband
open for power users
Start to copy data from Ollie to Albedo (Note: must be done by yourself, there is no automatic data migration!)
The more Albedo nodes are powered on, the more Ollie nodes have to be switched off. We have no schedule for this, but would decide depending on how useful Albedo already is for how many users. Of course, Albedo has a far better ratio of computing vs. electric power. - September
open to all users