Caltech HPC Resources
- The Caltech Supercomputing Lab offers a total of 16,840 CPU cores, 200 GPUs, and over 130 TB of memory across 347 compute nodes.
- Compute resources are supported by approximately 5.0 petabytes of storage.
- All nodes run CentOS Linux 7.
- Each standard GPU node hosts (4) Nvidia P100 GPU's, each containing 16GB of memory.
- 2 of our GPU nodes each host (2) V100 16GB cards.
- 1 of our GPU nodes host (4) V100 32GB cards.
Upcoming Cluster Refresh (2023)
- 10,880 Intel Cores
- 640 AMD Cores
- 16 Nvidia H100 GPUs (Fall 2023)
- HDR core upgrade
- New login nodes with 2x memory
Interactive login nodes:
| Hostname | Accessibility | Nodes | Cores/Node | CPU Type | Memory/Node | Memory Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| login.hpc.caltech.edu | Caltech Only | 2 | 32 | 16-core Intel Skylake (2.1 GHz) | 192 GB | TBD |
Compute nodes:
| Type | Nodes | Total Cores | Total Memory | Cores/Node | CPU Type | Memory/Node | Memory Speed | Walltime Limit | Infiniband | GPUs/Node |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | 179 | 5728 | 34,368 GB | 32 | 16-core Intel Skylake (2.1 GHz) | 192 GB | 2666 MT/s | 7 Days | EDR | |
| Large Memory | 11 | 352 | 4,224 GB | 32 | 16-core Intel Skylake (2.1 GHz) | 384 GB | 2666 MT/s | 7 Days | EDR | |
| Expansion Compute | 85 | 4760 | 32,810 GB | 56 | 28-core Intel Cascadelake 8276 (2.20 GHz) | 386 GB | 2933 MT/s | 7 Days | EDR | |
| Expansion Big Mem Compute | 9 | 504 | 13.5 TB | 56 | 28-core Intel Cascadelake 8276 (2.20 GHz) | 1.5 TB | 2933 MT/s | 7 Days | EDR | |
| Expansion Big Mem 4-way Compute | 2 | 192 | 3 TB | 96 | 24-core Intel Cascadelake 8276 (2.40 GHz) | 1.5 TB | 2933 MT/s | 7 Days | EDR | |
| 2nd Expansion-IceLake | 61 | 3904 | 32 TB | 64 | 32-core Intel Icelake 8352Y (2.20 GHz) | 528 GB | 3200 MT/s | 7 Days | EDR | |
| GPU | 50 | 1,400 | 12,800 GB | 28 | 14-core Intel Broadwell (2.4 GHz) | 256 GB | 2400 MT/s | 7 Days | EDR | 4 |