Xanadu and Mantis High-Performance Compute Clusters
Over 12,000 CPU Cores and 70 TB of RAM capable of processing at 300 TFLOPs and comprised of the following hardware:
- 10 Dell R730 nodes with two, 18-core Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors, 256 GB RAM and 10 gigabit interfaces
- 5 Dell nodes with two, 10-core Intel Xeon E5-2660v2 processors, 256 GB RAM and 10 gigabit interfaces
- 1 Dell R730 node with two, 18-core AMD Opteron processors, 256 GB RAM and 10 gigabit interfaces
- 1 Dell node with two, 24-core AMD EPYC processors, 264 GB RAM and 10 gigabit interfaces
- 19 Dell C6145 nodes with four, 12-core AMD Opteron processors, 256 GB RAM and 10 gigabit interfaces
- 15 Dell C6145 nodes with four 8-core AMD Opteron processors and 256 GB RAM and 10 gigabit interfaces
- 24 Penguin nodes with Intel Xeon Gold 6230 processors, 192 GB RAM ad 10 gigabit interfaces
- 15 NVIDIA A100 80gb PCIe GPUs, 6 NVIDIA A10 GPUs, and 2 NVIDIA M10 GPUs
- Job Management provided by Slurm Workload Manager with provisioning by Bright and Confluent
Virtualization Infrastructure
- 20 Dell PowerEdge hosts with 952 CPU cores and 8.7 TB RAM running VMWare 7 hosting 300+ Windows and Linux virtual machines with SSD high OPS performance cache tier
Datacenter Infrastructure
- UPS generator backed power with redundant cooling
- 3×40 Gbe dark fiber connection to off-site DR location
Network (100+ Gbe)
- Full non-oversubscribed 10/40/100/400 GbE datacenter network core layer
- BioScienceCT Research Network – 100 GbE to CEN, Internet2, Storrs
- HPC Science DMZ – low latency, 80 Gb-capable firewall
Storage
- 18 PB of storage including 775 TB Quantum, 3.4 PB EMC Isilon, 8.7 PB Qumulo scale-out clusters along with 2.3 PB Amplidata, and 3.1 PB Scality Geo-Spread cloud storage
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