Compute Hardware Overview

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Anunna's compute nodes are grouped into partitions by the kind of hardware they provide. This page summarises what each node type offers; for how to request a particular node or feature in a job, see Choosing a node (constraints).

CPU nodes

Standard compute nodes for jobs that do not need a GPU. These make up the main partition and handle the bulk of the cluster's work.


GPU nodes

Nodes equipped with GPUs, for accelerated workloads such as deep learning. Request a GPU with --gres=gpu:<n> and the appropriate partition (see Choosing a node (constraints)).

NVIDIA GPUs

Available in the gpu partition. The cluster has several NVIDIA GPU models — A100, A6000, and V100. The scheduler hands out A100s first, then A6000s, then V100s; the price per GPU-hour is the same for all of them. As a rough guide, the A100 (80 GB) is about twice as fast as the A6000 (48 GB) or V100 (16 GB), depending on whether your workload can use the extra memory. Constrain a job to a specific model with, for example, --constraint='nvidia&A100'.


AMD GPUs

Available in the gpu_amd partition. Requested the same way as NVIDIA GPUs, using the gpu_amd partition.


See also