Advanced Research Computing offers several distinct high-performance computing systems to Virginia Tech researchers and collaborators, listed below. Click on a link to read more about a given resource.
| NAME | TINKERCLIFFS | INFER | HUCKLEBERRY | CASCADES | DRAGONSTOOTH |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor/Model | HPE/Cray | HPE/Cray | IBM | HP | Lenovo |
| Key Features, Uses | Large-scale CPU | Machine learning/Inference | Deep learning applications | Data Intensive Problems | Single-node, long jobs |
| Login Node (xxx.arc.vt.edu) |
tinkercliffs1 or tinkercliffs2 | infer1 | huckleberry1 | cascades1 or cascades2 | dragonstooth1 |
| Available | October 2020 | January 2021 | August 2018 | October 2016, Expanded April 2018 | August 2016 |
| Operating System | CentOS Linux 7 | CentOS Linux 7 | CentOS Linux 7 | CentOS Linux 7 | CentOS Linux 7 |
| Theoretical Peak (TFlops/s) | 1,393 | 434 | 821 | 39 | |
| Nodes | 332 | 58 | 14 | 235 | 48 |
| Cores | 41,984 | 1,696 | 280 | 7,288 | 1,152 |
| Cores/Node | 96-128 | 28-32 | 20 | 24-72 | 24 |
| CPU Model | AMD EPYC 7702, Intel Xeon Platinum 9242 | Intel Xeon Gold 6130, Intel Xeon E5-2680v4 | Power8 | Varies by node type | Intel Xeon E5-2680v3 (Haswell) |
| CPU Speed | 2.0-2.3 GHz | 2.1-2.4 GHz | 3.26 GHz | 2.1-3.0 GHz | 2.50 GHz |
| Accelerators/Coprocessors | N/A | 96 | 56 | 86 | N/A |
| Accelerator Model | N/A | NVIDIA T4, NVIDIA P100 | NVIDIA P100 | NVIDIA V100, NVIDIA Tesla K80 | N/A |
| Accelerators/Node | N/A | 1-2 | 4 | 2 | N/A |
| Memory Size | 91.0 TB | 23.4 TB | 44.6 TB | 12.0 TB | |
| Memory/Core | 2.0-8.0 GB | 6.0-18.3 GB | 4.0-42.7 GB | 10.7 GB | |
| Memory/Node | 256-1,024 GB | 192-512 GB | 256 GB | 128-3,072 GB | 256 GB |
| Interconnect | HDR InfiniBand | EDR InfiniBand | EDR InfiniBand | EDR InfiniBand | 10 GbE |