Computational Resources
At ICS, we have a high performance computing cluster, which is mainly used by the researchers in our institute and also by the Faculty of informatics at USI.
The following list describes the main hardware resources provided by the cluster:
Technical Description
| Number of compute nodes | 40 |
| Number of compute cores | per node 2 sockets each with 10 cores (total 800 cores) |
| Processor on compute nodes | 2 x Intel Xeon Processor E5-2650 v3 (25M Cache, 2.30 GHz) |
| Memory/node | 64GB/128GB/512GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz |
| Disk capacity /node |
2 x 1TB SATA 6Gb |
| Nertwork Disk |
15TB + 32TB RAID |
| Node-node interconnect | InfiniBand Intel 40Gbps QDR |
| Special nodes with Coprocessors | 8 nodes with 3 x Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor 7120P 16GB, 1.238 GHz, 61 core with total 732 threads (3 x 4 x 61) |
| Special nodes with GPUs | 8 nodes with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X. 2560 CUDA cores |
