Compute Resources
The Università della Svizzera italiana has a high performance compute cluster that is dedicated to research in the Faculty of Informatics. The cluster comprises 42 nodes, each with two 10 core Intel Xeon processors, for a total of 840 cores connected by a high speed InfiniBand network. In addition, 11 nodes are equipped with Nvidia GPUs to increase throughput for massively parallel computational problems.
| Cluster Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Number of compute nodes | 42 |
| Number of compute cores | 2 sockets per node, each with 10 cores (840 cores total) |
| Processors | 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 (25M Cache, 2.3 GHz) |
| Memory per node | 64GB to 512GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz |
| Disk capacity per node | 2TB SATA 6Gb |
| Network storage | 15TB + 32TB RAID array |
| Node interconnect | Intel InfiniBand 40Gbps QDR |
| GPUs | 2 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080/GTX 1080 TI 11GB GDDR6/11GB GDDR5X 4352/3584 CUDA cores |