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Picotte: The Drexel Cluster

Picotte is Drexel's main high-performance computer cluster. It houses both Intel CPUs and Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs and runs the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. Picotte is available to any Drexel PI or student who is granted an account.

Picotte HPC Hardware Resources

Login Node 1 Dell PowerEdge R640 Server Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8268 CPUs – 48 cores 384 GB RAM
Standard Compute Nodes 74 Dell PowerEdge R640 servers Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8268 CPUs – 48 cores/server 192 GB RAM/server
Large Memory Nodes 2 Dell PowerEdge R640 servers Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8268 CPUs – 48 cores/server 1.5 TB RAM/server
Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) Nodes 12 Dell PowerEdge C4140 servers

Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 CPUs – 48 cores/server

4 Nvidia Tesla V100-SXM2 32GB GPU devices/server

192 GB RAM/server
 Parallel Scratch Storage Dell EMC/BeeGFS Solution for HPC 175 TB usable capacity aggregate 44 GB/s read, aggregate 41 GB/s write

Persistent storage

 PHI Compliant

Dell EMC PowerScale Isilon scale-out storage 649 TB usable capacity 10 Gbps Ethernet
Node-local scratch storage   854 GB 12 Gbps SAS SSD (per node)  
Network Fabric

4X HDR Mellanox InfiniBand connected at 100 Gbps

10 Gbps Ethernet

   

Picotte HPC Software Resources

Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 64-bit
Job Scheduler SLURM