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Systems

Systems

Image of the University of Georgia - Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center SAPELO2 High Performance Comuting Cluster.

The Sapelo2 Cluster

The cluster currently has more than 38,000 cores, spanning general-purpose compute nodes (128GB to 512GB of RAM), high-memory nodes (1TB and 2TB of RAM), CPU/GPU hybrid nodes (P100 and A100 GPUs). Additionally, the cluster hosts an ever-growing number of researcher-owned compute nodes obtained through the GACRC Buy-In Program. For more information, please see the GACRC wiki.

High-Performance Storage

Data storage for the GACRC-supported cluster is currently provided by a number of storage environments. Notably, the following devices provide $HOME, $SCRATCH, $WORK filesystems for the GACRC cluster, as well as the $PROJECT filesystem for off-cluster long-term storage for active project data. 

  • Aeon hybrid  Lustre appliance (2.4PB flash & 9.6PB spinning drives) - $SCRATCH & $WORK on Sapelo2
  • ZFS storage appliance (300TB) - $HOME on Sapelo2
  • ZFS storage appliance (2PB) -  $PROJECT research groups' long-term space - only for active projects requiring Sapelo2 access
  • Panasas ActiveStor 100H (1PB) - $PROJECT research groups' long-term space - only for active projects requiring Sapelo2 access
  • ZFS storage appliances (4PB) -  backup & mirroring environments for $HOME and $PROJECT.