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.
| Node | Server | CPUs | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 |
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Picotte HPC Software Resources
- Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 64-bit
- Job Scheduler: SLURM
