Dear Phoenix researchers,
We have migrated 800 (out of 1319) nodes of our existing hardware as part of our ongoing Phoenix cluster migration to Slurm. PACE has continued our effort to provide a heterogenous hardware environment by adding 5 GPU nodes (2x Nvidia A100s per node) and 4 CPU nodes (2x AMD Epyc 7713 processors with 128 cores per node) to the Phoenix-Slurm cluster.
Both service offerings provide exciting, new hardware for research computing at PACE. The A100 GPU nodes, which also include 2x AMD Epyc 7513 processors with 64 cores per node, provide a powerful option to our users for GPU compute in machine learning and scientific applications. The AMD Epyc CPU nodes provide a cost-effective alternative to Intel processors for research, with energy and equipment savings we pass to our users with a lower rate than our current base option. However, AMD CPUs still provide great value in traditional HPC due to higher memory bandwidth and core density. You can find out more about our latest costs in our rate study here.
You can find out more information on our new nodes in our documentation here. We also provide documentation on how to use the A100 GPU nodes and AMD CPU nodes on Phoenix-Slurm. If you need further assistance with using these new resources, please feel free to reach out to us at pace-support@oit.gatech.edu or attend our next consulting session.
Best,
-The PACE Team