Boreal

Boreal is a high performance computing (HPC) cluster with 100 Intel Sandy-Bridge™ nodes with a clock speed of 2.6GHz.

The system has an aggregate of 61TB of memory, .9PB of global storage in a Lustre file system, and an aggregate of 234TB of local disk.

Nodes

Each compute node has 2 eight-core sockets for a total of 16 Intel© Xeon™ cores per node with 128GB of memory yielding 8GB of memory per core.

Accelerators

Boreal has two different types of accellerators.

It has 56 nodes each with 2 NVIDIA Tesla V100 16GB GPUs (112 GPUs total) in the pncc partition. The GPUs are attached via a PCI-express bus (PCIe x16) to the Sandy-Bridge Xeon© cores.

Additionally, it has 12 nodes with 8 A100 GPUs (96 GPUs total) in the ampere partition attached via a PCI-express bus attached to the AMD Milan 24-Core Processors

Network

The 100 nodes are connected by an FDR Infiniband fabric. The /home file system has 320TB.