KRAKEN

Kraken is designed to support CERFACS research activities, most of its usage consists in CFD simulations for combustion. Other usages are in the fields of aerodynamics, climate and linear algebra.

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HPC Infrastructure Description

Technical specifications:

Total peak Performance of 1 Petaflops
- Scalar partition (723 peak Tflop/s)
  - 185 nodes
    - 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6140
    - 96 GB DDR4
  - 40 nodes
    - 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8368
    - 256 GB DDR4
- Accelerated partition (255 peak Tflop/s)
  - 8 nodes
    - 2x Intel Icelake
    - 256 GB memory
    - 4x Nvidia A30 with 24GB
  - 2 nodes
    - 2x AMD Rome
    - 512 GB memory
    - 1x Nvidia A100 with 40 GB
  - 1 node
    - 4x Nvidia V100 with 32 GB
    - NVLink interconnect
    - 192 GB memory
  - 3 nodes
    - 192 GB memory
    - 1x Nvidia V100 or 1x Nvidia T4

Interconnect network :
- Intel OmniPath 100 Gb/s

Operating system : CentOS 7.6

Access

Cluster reserved for CERFACS internal use only. External access depends on collaboration.

More information

https://cerfacs.fr/en/cerfacs-computer-resources/

Name of hosting organisation and Location

CERFACS, 42 Av. Gaspard Coriolis, 31100 Toulouse - France