Computing resources

An overview of the computing resources available at the ABI.

Institute members use a diverse range of computing facilities, which are often tailored to specific projects or applications. Our IT team are responsible for over 300 PCs and servers running Linux, Microsoft Windows (10,11), and Apple MacOS.

The IT team supports a broad range of services, including system/software installations, file serving and networking infrastructure, web and database services, and hardware troubleshooting and maintenance.

The institute provides the following computation facilities:

Shared memory systems

Shared memory system 1 (hpc2)

• 48 processors, Intel Xeon Gold 6136 3.0GHz 
• 1152 GB of memory  
• 2 x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPU – 32GB memory each
• Operating System: Centos 7.9 
 

Shared memory system 2 (hpc3)

• 72 processors, Intel Xeon Gold 6254 3.1GHz 
• 2048 GB of memory  
• Operating System: Redhat 9 
 

Shared memory system 3 (hpc5)

• 32 processors, AMD EPYC 73F3 3.5GHz  
• 2048 GB of memory  
• 3 x Nvidia Tesla A100 GPU – 80GB memory each
• Operating System: Redhat 9 
 

Shared memory system 4 (hpc6)

• 32 processors, AMD EPYC 73F3 3.5GHz  
• 1024 GB of memory  • 2 x Nvidia Tesla H100 GPU – 80GB memory each
• Operating System: Redhat 9
 

Shared memory system 5 (hpc7)

• 48 processors, Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 2.7GHz 
• 768 GB of memory  
• 10 x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPU – 32GB memory each
• Operating System: Centos 8.5 

Storage

100 TB of storage is provided via NFS filesystems and Samba/Cifs.

Software

CMISS/cm, CMgui, Matlab, OpenCMISS, Intel compiler suites, Totalview.