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Talon

Skylake Nodes

These are the newest nodes in the Talon cluster. All of these nodes have higher core counts than previous generations with select nodes containing additional memory or GPU accelerators for more demanding workloads.

Quantity Role Model Specs
20

Compute Node

(talon queue)

HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 

  • Two 64-bit 18-core Intel Xeon Gold 6140 processors (36 cores per node)
  • 192GB of RAM per node
  • Two 960GB SSDs in a RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration
4

Large Memory Node

(talon-fat queue)

HP ProLiant DL560 Gen10 

  • Four 64-bit 18-core Intel Xeon Gold 6140 processors (72 cores per node)
  • 3TB of RAM per node
  • Two 960GB SSDs in a RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration
3

GPU Accelerated Deep Learning Node

(talon-gpu queue)

HP ProLiant XL270d Gen10 

  • Two 64-bit 18-core Intel Xeon Gold 6140 processors (36 cores per node)
  • 1.5TB of RAM per node
  • 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs per node with 16GB of HBM2 VRAM each (5120 CUDA cores per card, 640 Tensor cores per card)
3

Web Services Node

(VM nodes)

HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 

  • Two 64-bit 18-core Intel Xeon Gold 6140 processors (36 cores per node)
  • 768GB of RAM per node
  • Two 960GB SSDs in a RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration
2

Head Node

HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 

  • Two 64-bit 10-core Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processors (20 cores per node)
  • 96GB of RAM per node
  • Two 4TB HDDs

Haswell Nodes

These nodes were formerly known as the Arya cluster.

Quantity Role  Model Specs
2

Dual Processor

Compute Node

(Authorized users only)

Dell PowerEdge R630

  • Two 64-bit 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 processors (16 cores per node)
  • 32GB of RAM per node
  • Two 300GB 15K SAS HDDs in a RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration
4

Dual Processor

Compute Node

(Authorized users only)

Dell PowerEdge R630

  • Two 64-bit 12-core Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 processors (24 cores per node)
  • 64GB of RAM per node
  • 250GB SATA HDD

Additional Specs

  • Private 1Gbps Administration network
  • Public 10Gbps Ethernet network
  • Private 100Gbps Infiniband EDR Research network for Skylake Nodes
  • Private 56Gbps Infiniband EDR Research network for Haswell Nodes
  • 288TB CEPH Storage System
  • DDN GS7K 3PB (3000TB raw, 2400TB usable) GPFS storage system 
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
Computational Research Center
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3051 University Ave Stop 9000
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P 701.777.6514
und.hpc.support@UND.edu

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