Nova Hardware

Overview

The Nova cluster began in 2018 with compute nodes using Intel Skylake Xeon processors, 1.5TB or 11TB of fast NVME local storage and 192GB / 384GB / 3TB of memory.  Five of those nodes also have one or two Nvidia Tesla V100-32GB GPU cards. In 2021 the cluster was expanded with nodes using AMD processors, each having two 32-Core  AMD EPYC 7502 Processors, 1.5TB of fast NVME local storage and 512GB of memory. The new GPU nodes in addition have four NVidia A100 80GB GPU cards. The 2022 expansion consists of 54 regular compute nodes (with two 32-Core Intel 8358 processors, 1.6TB of local storage and 512GB of memory each) and 5 GPU nodes with two 24-Core AMD EPYC 7413 processors, eight A100 GPU cards, 960GB of local storage and 512GB of memory each.

Contents

• Detailed Hardware Specification
• Detailed GPU Specification
• Current Cluster Utilization
• Additional Compute Resources

Detailed Hardware Specification

HPC group schedules regular maintenances between academic terms to update system software and to perform other tasks that require a downtime.

The date of the next maintenance is listed in the message of the day displayed at login (when ssh-ing to the cluster).

Note: Queued jobs will not start if they cannot complete before the maintenance begins. In the output of the squeue command the reason for those jobs will state (ReqNodeNotAvail, Reserved for maintenance) . The jobs will start after the scheduled outage completes.

Detailed GPU Specification