Platforms
NeSI provides High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms, supporting researchers in New Zealand across the public research sector and in private industry. As a national High Performance Computing infrastructure, we support researchers with state-of-the art integrated platforms and infrastructure, while providing expertise and support.
NeSI supports HPC systems at two facilities, being the University of Auckland and NIWA Wellington.
| Platform | Hardware | Operating Environment |
|---|---|---|
Cray XC50 (transition machine) | 104 nodes each with 20 cores (6,148 2.4 GHz processor cores) with each node having 96 GB RAM, providing 9.984 TB RAM in total. Cray Aries interconnect between nodes | SLES Spectrum Scale file system SLURM workload scheduler and TSM-SM Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) |
Intel cluster | 6,000+ cores of Intel based x86 processors (IvyBridge/SandyBridge/Westmere) operating at 2.7-2.8 GHz with approximately 8 GB RAM per core 42 GPU devices (Tesla M2090 and K20X models) 4 Intel Xeon Phi devices (Intel Phi 5110P) QDR Infiniband interconnect | Linux GPFS high performance parallel file system SLURM workload scheduler and TSM-SM Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) |