SHAREing HPC Testbeds
UK researchers have access to a vast number of testbeds and machines where they can quickly get access and trial new codes or ideas. Some of these machines have been procured through governmental grants such as the ExCALIBUR H&ES programme, some universities open up their systems to UKRI-eligible colleagues, and some commercial providers grant access to their systems in the Cloud, too. Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of all the different opportunities. This page collects systems as well as some meta information such that it is easier for researchers to find the right system for the right purpose.
For each system, click its name to find out more about that system.
| System name | Status | Category | Focus | Focus area | Grouping | Funders | Nodes | Accelerators | Accelerator count per node | Accelerated memory | Host memory | Memory bandwidth | Memory bandwidth benchmark | Floating point performance | Floating point performance precision | Floating point benchmark | I/O bandwidth | I/O bandwidth benchmark | Manufacturer | Scheduler | Interconnects | Available profilers | Module environment | Software installation method | Reference |
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| AccelerateAI | In service | Production system | Regional system | Wales | Supercomputing Wales | ERDF Welsh Government |
6 | NVIDIA A100 40GB | 8 | 320 GiB | 512 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Atos | Slurm | Infiniband HDR NVLink |
NVIDIA Nsight, Intel VTune/Advisor |
Lmod 9.2 | Manual installation, Spack, EasyBuild |
Link |
| Arm Catalyst (Cavium ThunderX2) | Decommissioned | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | Arm ExCALIBUR H&ES |
64 | Cavium ThunderX2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | HPE | unknown | Mellanox Infiniband | Link | ||||
| Arm Catalyst (NVIDIA V100) | Decommissioned | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | Arm ExCALIBUR H&ES |
unknown | NVIDIA V100 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | HPE | unknown | Mellanox Infiniband | Link | ||||
| Baskerville Tier 2 (NVIDIA A100-40GB) | End of life | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | ExCALIBUR | EPSRC ExCALIBUR H&ES |
unknown | NVIDIA A100-40GB | unknown | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Lenovo | Slurm | Mellanox Infiniband HDR | Link | |||
| Baskerville Tier 2 (NVIDIA A100-80GB) | End of life | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | ExCALIBUR | EPSRC ExCALIBUR H&ES |
unknown | NVIDIA A100-80GB | unknown | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Lenovo | Slurm | Mellanox Infiniband HDR | Link | |||
| Baskerville Tier 2 (NextSilicon) | End of life | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | ExCALIBUR | EPSRC ExCALIBUR H&ES |
unknown | NextSilicon | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Lenovo | Slurm | Mellanox Infiniband HDR | Link | |||
| Bede (NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB) | In service | Production system | Regional system | N8 group universities, and EPSRC-funded projects | N8CIR | N8 EPSRC |
32 | NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB | 4 | 128 GiB | 512 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | IBM | Slurm | InfiniBand EDR NVLink 2.0 |
Link | |||
| Bede (NVIDIA Tesla T4 16GB) | In service | Production system | Regional system | N8 group universities, and EPSRC-funded projects | N8CIR | N8 EPSRC |
4 | NVIDIA Tesla T4 16GB | 4 | 64 GiB | 256 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | IBM | Slurm | InfiniBand EDR NVLink 2.0 |
Link | |||
| Bede (H100 Verpertec) | In service | Production system | Regional system | N8 group universities, and EPSRC-funded projects | N8CIR | N8 EPSRC |
6 | NVIDIA H100 96GB | 1 | 96 GiB | 480 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Vespertec | Slurm | InfiniBand EDR NVLink 2.0 |
Link | |||
| Bede (H100 Supermicro) | In service | Production system | Regional system | N8 group universities, and EPSRC-funded projects | N8CIR | N8 EPSRC |
1 | NVIDIA H100 96GB | 1 | 96 GiB | 480 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Supermicro | Slurm | InfiniBand EDR NVLink 2.0 |
Link | |||
| Bede (NVIDIA H100 144GB) | In service | Production system | Regional system | N8 group universities, and EPSRC-funded projects | N8CIR | N8 EPSRC |
1 | NVIDIA H100 144GB | 2 | 288 GiB | 960 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Supermicro | Slurm | InfiniBand EDR NVLink 2.0 |
Link | |||
| COSMA A100 (cosma8-shm/Adaptable Memory System) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
2 | NVIDIA A100 40GB | 1 | 40 GiB | 4096 GiB | 1352 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | Dell | Slurm | Infiniband HDR200 Liqid composable fabric |
Link | |||
| COSMA A100 (mad06/Adaptable Memory System) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | NVIDIA A100 40GB | 1 | 40 GiB | 1024 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dell | Direct SSH | Infiniband HDR200 Liqid composable fabric |
Link | |||
| COSMA A30 | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
8 | NVIDIA A30 | 1 | 24 GiB | 2048 GiB | 822 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | NVIDIA | Slurm | CerIO composable fabric | Link | |||
| COSMA CPU Compute Lab (Intel Sierra Forest) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC Hypertec Dell AMD |
1 | Intel Xeon 6756E | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dell | Direct SSH | Link | ||||
| COSMA CPU Compute Lab (AMD Turin) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC Hypertec Dell AMD |
1 | AMD EPYC 9755 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dell | Direct SSH | Link | ||||
| COSMA CPU Compute Lab (AMD Milan-X) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC Hypertec Dell AMD |
1 | AMD EPYC 7773X | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dell | Direct SSH | Link | |||||
| COSMA CPU Compute Lab (AMD Genoa) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC Hypertec Dell AMD |
2 | AMD EPYC 9654 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dell | Slurm | Link | ||||
| COSMA CPU Compute Lab (Intel Cascade Lake) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC Hypertec Dell AMD |
1 | Intel Xeon Platinum 8260L | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Intel | Slurm | Link | ||||
| COSMA GH200 (gn002) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | NVIDIA GH200 | 1 | 96 GiB | 480 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | NVIDIA | Direct SSH | NVLink-C2C | Link | |||
| COSMA GH200 (gn003) | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | NVIDIA GH200 | 1 | 96 GiB | 480 GiB | 3500 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | NVIDIA | Slurm | NVLink-C2C | Link | |||
| COSMA H100 | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | NVIDIA H100 NVL | 1 | 94 GiB | 510 GiB | 3387 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | NVIDIA | Direct SSH | Link | ||||
| COSMA MI100 | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | AMD MI100 | 1 | 32 GiB | 1024 GiB | 947 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | AMD | Slurm | Link | ||||
| COSMA MI210 | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
2 | AMD MI210 | 2 | 128 GiB | 1024 GiB | 1250 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | AMD | Slurm | Link | ||||
| COSMA MI300A | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | AMD MI300A 128GB | 4 | 512 GiB | 512 GiB | 3648 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | AMD | Direct SSH | Link | ||||
| COSMA MI300X | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | AMD MI300X 192GB | 8 | 1536 GiB | 2048 GiB | 4036 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | AMD | Slurm | Link | ||||
| COSMA PVC | Decommissioned | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC Intel |
1 | Intel Ponte Vecchio | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Intel | Direct SSH | Link | ||||
| COSMA V100 | In service | Test bed | Openly-available system | Prototyping and testing | COSMA | STFC DiRAC ExCALIBUR |
1 | NVIDIA V100 32GB | 6 | 192 GiB | 768 GiB | 823 GB/s | BabelStream | — | — | — | — | — | NVIDIA | Direct SSH | Link | ||||
| Tursa (NVIDIA A100 40GB) | In service | Production system | Discipline-specific system | High-Energy Physics | DiRAC | STFC UKRI DSIT |
114 | NVIDIA A100 40GB | 4 | 160 GiB | 1024 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Atos | Slurm | Infiniband HDR NVLink |
NVIDIA Nsight | Environment Modules 4.1.4 | Manual installation | Link |
| Tursa (NVIDIA A100 80GB) | In service | Production system | Discipline-specific system | High-Energy Physics | DiRAC | STFC UKRI DSIT |
65 | NVIDIA A100 80GB | 4 | 320 GiB | 1024 GiB | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Atos | Slurm | Infiniband HDR NVLink |
NVIDIA Nsight | Environment Modules 4.1.4 | Manual installation | Link |
Disclaimer
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