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Snowy Hardware

Snowy cluster Server room

Nodes CPUs Cores Memory Scratch GPUs Name Comment
122 2x Xeon E5-2660 2.2 GHz 16 (2 x 8) 128GB 3/4TB N/A s1-s12, s14-s40, s42-s120, s201-s204 .
49 2x Xeon E5-2660 2.2 GHz 16 (2 x 8) 128GB 3/4TB Tesla T4 s151-s163, s164-s200 .
15 2x Xeon E5-2660 2.2 GHz 16 (2 x 8) 512GB 3/4TB N/A s121-s129, s131, s133-s137 -C mem512GB or -C fat
12 2x Xeon E5-2660 2.2 GHz 16 (2 x 8) 256GB 3/4TB N/A s139-s150 -C mem256GB or -C fat
1 2x Xeon E5-2660 2.2 GHz 80 (10 x 8) 4TB 3/4TB N/A s229 -C mem4TB -p veryfat
1 2x Xeon E5-2660 2.2 GHz 16 (2 x 8) 256GB 3/4TB Tesla T4 s138 -C mem256GB or -C fat
  • Job walltime : 30 days (720 hrs)
  • interactive walltime : 12 hrs
  • -p devel or -p devcore walltime : 1 hr
  • No -t walltime : 1 hr
  • Total jobs allowed (running and waiting) : 5000
  • Path to node-local temp disk space (scratch folder) : $SNIC_TMP

GPU on Snowy: NVIDIA T4 (16GB)

Performance in TFLOPS and TOPS (1012 operations per sec):

Data type A100 T4
FP64 9.7 | 19.5* 0.25
FP32 19.5 8.1
TF32 156** N/A
FP16 312** 65
BF16 312** N/A
Int8 624** 130
Int4 1248** 260

*Performance on Tensor Core.
**Up to a factor of two faster with sparsity.

Submitting jobs : Slurm on snowy