Surface
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Here is a breakdown of the "mixed" composition of CPU/GPU architectures on Surface:
| Architecture | Clock Speed (GHz) | CPUs GPUs |
Cores/CPU Node Cores/GPU Node |
Cores Total | Memory/Node (GB) | Memory Total (GB) | TFLOPS peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel 8-core Xeon E5-2670 NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU |
2.6 745 MHz |
162 158*2 |
16 2880 |
2,592 910,080 |
256 12*2 |
41,472 3,792 |
53.9 451.9 |
The chart, below, is necessarily simplified to the limitations of the database and consistency with other systems.
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| Vendor | Appro | ||||||||||
| CPU Clock Speed (GHz) | 2.6 | ||||||||||
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| OS | TOSS 3 | ||||||||||
| Interconnect | IB QDR | ||||||||||
| Parallel job type | multiple nodes per job | ||||||||||
| Run Command | srun | ||||||||||
| Recommended location for scratch file space | /p/lscratch{...} | ||||||||||
| Program | ASC, M&IC | ||||||||||
| Password Authentication | OTP, Kerberos | ||||||||||
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| Availability | Limited |