Cluster specifications

Fidis is an Intel Broadwell based cluster available to the EPFL community starting May 1st, 2017.

• Peak performance Rpeak: 475 TFLOPs
• Total RAM: 61TB
• Storage: 350TB

The cluster is composed of 408 compute nodes, each with

• 2 Intel Broadwell processors running at 2.6 GHz, with 14 cores each (28 cores per machine),
• 800 GB of SSD disk

for a total of 11424 cores

336 nodes have 128 GB of RAM,

72 nodes have 256 GB of RAM

 

Infiniband FDR fully-non-blocking connectivity with a fat-tree topology,

GPFS filesystem.

Login node: fidis.epfl.ch

Gacrux extension

In May 2018, 216 Gacrux nodes were added. Their configuration is

• Peak performance Rpeak: 503 TFLOPs
• 2 Intel Skylake processors running at 2.6 GHz, with 14 cores each (28 cores per machine),
• 800 GB of SSD disk
• 192 GB of RAM
• Infiniband EDR connectivity