BlueCrystal 4 and BluePebble technical specifications

BlueCrystal 4 

BlueCrystal 4 (BC4) was primarily designed for large parallel jobs and work requiring the Nvidia P100 GPUs. The HPC environment is for use in academic research at the University of Bristol and is capable of up to 600 trillion calculations per second.  

BC4 has the following technology:

• 525 Lenovo nx360 m5 compute nodes each with two 14 core 2.4 GHz Intel E5-2680 v4 (Broadwell) CPUs, and 128 GiB of RAM.
• 17 extra high memory nodes, each of which has 512 GiB of RAM.
• 32 GPU nodes with two cards each, plus 1 GPU in a login node, totalling 65 GPUs

Documentation

• BlueCrystal 4 Documentation (there are 'BlueCrystal 4' tabs for BC4 specific information)

BluePebble

BluePebble contains a range of standard, GPU and some large memory nodes.

Documentation

• BluePebble Documentation (there are BluePebble tabs for BluePebble specific information)