HPC Resources¶
Borah¶
Borah was rolled out in October 2020 and is the third centrally-shared cluster Boise State has purchased. The cluster is located at the Idaho National Laboratory’s Collaborative Computing Center (C3) and built through a partnership between Boise State, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and Idaho Power (IPC).
Specifications¶
| Category | Login Nodes | Head Nodes | Compute Nodes | GPU Nodes | High Memory Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherboard | PowerEdge R340, V2 | PowerEdge R440 | PowerEdge C6420 | PowerEdge R740XD | PowerEdge R640MLK |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E-2146G 3.5GHz, 12M cache, 6C/12T, turbo (80W) | Intel Xeon Gold 6252 2.1G, 24C/48T, 10.4GT/s, 35.75M Cache, Turbo, HT (150W) DDR4-2933 (x2) | Intel Xeon Gold 6252 2.1G, 24C/48T, 10.4GT/s, 35.75M Cache, Turbo, HT (150W) DDR4-2933 (x2) | Intel Xeon Gold 6252 2.1G, 24C/48T, 10.4GT/s, 35.75M Cache, Turbo, HT (150W) DDR4-2933 (x2) | Intel Xeon Gold 6252 2.1G, 24C/48T, 10.4GT/s, 35.75M Cache, Turbo, HT (150W) DDR4-2933 (x2) |
| Memory | 64 GB | 64 GB | 192 GB | 384 GB | 768 GB |
| GPU | N/A | N/A | N/A | NVIDIA Tesla V100 (x2) | N/A |
| Interconnect | Mellanox Non-Blocking HDR200/HDR100 Infiniband | Mellanox Non-Blocking HDR200/HDR100 Infiniband | Mellanox Non-Blocking HDR200/HDR100 Infiniband | Mellanox Non-Blocking HDR200/HDR100 Infiniband | Mellanox Non-Blocking HDR200/HDR100 Infiniband |
| Cores | 6 | 48 | 1,968 | 20,480 CUDA + 192 CPU | 48 |
In addition to the above infrastructure, the Borah system also has another 68 CPU nodes owned by our industry partner, Idaho Power. When not in use by Idaho Power, Boise State researchers have access to up to 34 Idaho Power CPU nodes for their research.
Falcon¶
Idaho National Laboratory makes the Top 500 supercomputer known as “Falcon” available to Boise State researchers. For help setting up accounts, requesting allocations or access to Falcon, visit https://www.c3plus3.org/falcon/ or contact the Research Computing Support Department at Help@c3plus3.org.
RMACC¶
The Alpine Supercomputer is funded by the University of Colorado Boulder (CU), the University of Colorado Anschutz, Colorado State University, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The supercomputer is available to members of RMACC (Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium), which includes Boise State researchers. To access Alpine visit the CU Research Computing documentation.
See Alpine’s specification page for system details.
ACCESS¶
ACCESS is the successor to the XSEDE program which provides a variety of cyberinfrastructure resources. More information on ACCESS can be found here.