NCSA wiki will be offline Friday, Apr 19, 2024, from 1700 hours until Sun, Apr 21, 2024 in order to upgrade Confluence.
ISL maintains and provides access to a number of experimental systems:
| System Name | Description | Storage | Networking | Hostname | Status | Service dates | Access | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clusters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| HAL | Cluster of 16 IBM POWER9 nodes with 4 NVIDIA V100 GPUs per node | 244 TB usable, NVME SSD-based storage by DDN Peak system bandwidth ~100GB/s | 10GbE external Dedicated 10GbE for data transfer dual-channel EDR IB internal | hal | not in service | 2019 | restrictedopen | ||||||||||||||||
| Nano | Cluster of 8 SuperMicro servers with Intel Haswell/Broadwell CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla P100/V100 GPUs | Local 256GB SSD per node NFS-mounted 30TB /home (2x 6-drive RAID z2 with 4TB drives) GlusterFS w/ 2-node fault tolerance 62TB 45TB usable | 10GbE external 1GbE + IB QDR internal | nano | in service | 2016 | open | ||||||||||||||||
| Chief
| Cluster of 5 Dell R730 servers with Intel Broadwell CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs (Student Cluster Competition 2016-present) (Jump) | Local 400GB SSD per node 5x 800GB SSD in RAID 5 | 10GbE + IB EDR internal | chiefkingfisher | not in service | 2016 | restricted | ||||||||||||||||
| KNC | Xeon Phi 5-node co-processor cluster | knc | not in service | ||||||||||||||||||||
| KNL | Xeon Phi 4-node processor cluster (access via KNC) | knl* | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Object (admins only) | Kubernetes test cluster | object | offline | restricted | |||||||||||||||||||
| not in service | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clouds | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| VLAD OpenStack cluster | OpenStack Cloud deployment | in service | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Servers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Servers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| DGX A100 | NVIDIA DGX A100 | 14TB RAID0 | 1GbE | hal-dgx | in service | 2021- | open | ||||||||||||||||
| Ac33 | TYAN server with Intel Westmere-EP CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPUs | Local 300GB + 1TB HDD | ac33 | not in service | 2014 | open | |||||||||||||||||
| Hybrid | SuperMicro server with Intel Haswell-EP CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla P100/V100 GPUs | Local 75GB SSD + one (3x 4TB) RAID 0 arrays | 10GbE | hybrid | in service | 2016 | restricted | ||||||||||||||||
| Vlad-hm | High memory server with 3TB of ECC RAM | Local 3TB SSD + two (6x 1TB) RAID 0 arrays CephFS 257TB (reported) | 10GbE | vlad-hm | in service | open | |||||||||||||||||
| AMD ARM server | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power9 server | IBM POWER9 with Nallatech 250S+ | Local 2x 3.84TB SSD Local 1.4TB NVME | 10GbE | hal000 | in service | restricted to NSF MRI project | |||||||||||||||||
| not in service | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power9 AC922 | Xilinx Vivado HLS dev | Xilinx Vivado HLS development platform | hal-fpga-x86 | in service | restricted to NSF MRI project | Power9 server | IBM POWER9 4x NVIDIA Tesla V100 16GB | Local 2x 3.84TB SSD Local 1.4TB NVME | 1GbE | p9 | in service | restricted to XPACC project | |||||||||||
(overdrive) | 1x Ampere Altra Q80-30 2x NVIDIA A100 GPU | restricted to NCSA users only | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FPGA dev | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Altera DE5 FPGA board | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| pynq | XILINX PYNQ-Z1 | pynq | offline | 05/2017 | openrestricted | ||||||||||||||||||
| XilinxDevKit | Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA KCU1500 Acceleration Development Kit | iridium | in service | restricted | |||||||||||||||||||
| CAPI2.0 platformrestricted | Nallatech 250S+in Power9 server (hal000) | 4x NVIDIA Tesla V100 16GB | Local 2x 3.84TB SSD | 10GbE | hal000 | in service | 3/20192018 | restricted | |||||||||||||||
| Misc | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ceph storage | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| to NSF MRI project | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| OpenCAPI platform (IBM P9 IC922) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xilinx u250 | x86 server with Alveo U250 Data Center Accelerator Card and Vitis development environment | hal-fpga-x86 | in service | 2020 | restricted to NSF MRI project | ||||||||||||||||||
| Misc | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ceph storage | offline | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raspberry Pi boards | offline | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jetson | NVIDIA Jetson TK1 cluster | in service | offline | restricted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Jetson TX2 | NVIDIA Jetson TX2 cluster | 1TB NFS-mounted /home | 1GbE internal & external | jetson-tx2-* | offline | open | |||||||||||||||||
Main -> Systems
Contact us
Request access to ISL resources: see individual systems
Contact ISL staff: Email Address
Visit: NCSA, room 3050E