Alderaan

Funding

This cluster is funded by NSF grant 2019089 "CC* Compute: Accelerating Science and Education by Campus and Grid Computing" under the NSF CC* program. The cluster will be integrated with the Open_Science_Grid (OSG). At least 20% of capacity will be contributed to the OSG as required by the program.

Configuration

Hardware

• 2048 AMD EPYC 2 cores and 4TB DDR4 memory in 8 compute nodes
• 256 AMD EPYC 2 cores, 2 NVIDIA Tesla A100 and 4TB DDR4 memory in 2 high-memory GPU nodes
• 128 AMD EPYC 2 cores in a head node
• 1PB storage (raw)
• HDR100 Infiniband interconnect
• 10Gb/s connectivity path from each node to Internet 2

Software

• scheduler, cluster tools, GNU compiler stack with MPI over Infiniband
• CUDA for GPUs
• shared filesystem over Infiniband

Expected progress

• Fall semester 2020
  • Purchase order
  • Planning
  • Test software installations
• Spring semester 2021
  • Delivery and installation
  • Testing with the vendor's software configuration
  • Finalize networking, access, and security plan
  • Open to early users
  • Install user web interface - JupyterHub, FastX
  • Install OSG - run OSG jobs and submit jobs to OSG
• AY 2021/2022
  • Open to users
  • Finalize integration within the local network

User training

• submission of OSG jobs
• web access to the cluster
• ssh command line usage

Contact: jan.mandel@ucdenver.edu