The Research Computing team at Queen's University provide a centrally managed High Performance Computing (HPC) system (detailed below). Researchers can avail of these systems in order to solve compute and data intensive problems.
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Kelvin2 Cluster
Kelvin2 is a scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) and Research Data Storage environment.
Installation date: Nov 2019
- 96 x 128 core Dell PowerEdge R6525 compute nodes with AMD EPYC 7702 dual 64-Core Processors (786GB RAM).
- 8 High memory nodes (2TB RAM).
- 32 x NVIDIA Tesla v100 GPUs in 8 nodes.
- 16 x NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs in 4 nodes.
- 2PB of lustre parallel file system for scratch storage.
- EDR infiniband interconnect
For further information please see the NI-HPC website .
- HPC Service
Software
A wide range of scientific software is available for all the systems. New software can be installed on request providing a valid software license is available.
Support for researchers
The Research Support team provide help in a number of ways:
- Training - a 90min introduction to Kelvin can be organized and delivered on request.
- Help with job scripts
- Software installation
- Consultancy
- Programming help
Accessing the service and Getting Help
To gain an account please see the form found here :
https://www.ni-hpc.ac.uk/Access/
For further information including documentation, case studies and event schedules please see the official NI-HPC website.
Last Updated: June 2023