Fox System Overview
Fox consists of login nodes, compute nodes with CPUs (regular compute nodes), compute nodes with GPUs (accelerated nodes), and machines for interactive use (interactive nodes).
Fox has ~3000 cores on 24 regular compute nodes, each with 128 cores (AMD chips) and 512 GiB of memory, 3+ TiB NVMe scratch disk and InfiniBand interconnect.
There are four login nodes, with the same specs as the regular compute nodes.
The interactive lineup has 500+ cores in four nodes each with 128 cores (same as compute cluster), 1024 GiB of memory, 7.5 TiB NVMe scratch disk and InfiniBand interconnect.
The GPU accelerated part of the system is made up of two nodes with four NVIDIA A100 cards each, as well as three nodes with four NVIDIA RTX 3090 cards from IFI.
Technical Specifications
Different parts of the cluster have different nodes, with different resources available. See Job Types for more information.
| Node Type | Allocation units | Available resources |
|---|---|---|
| Regular compute nodes | CPUs and memory | 24 nodes with 128 CPUs and 501 GiB RAM each. In total 3072 CPUs and 11.7 TiB RAM. |
GPU accelerated nodes (accel) | CPUs, memory and GPUs | 4 nodes with 96 CPUs, 1006 GiB RAM and 4x Nvidia A100 GPUs each. In total 384 CPUs, 4024 GiB RAM and 16 GPUs. |
GPU accelerated nodes (ifi_accel) | CPUs, memory and GPUs | 3 nodes with 96 CPUs, 1006 GiB RAM and 4x Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs each. In total 288 CPUs, 3018 GiB RAM and 12 GPUs. |
| Interactive nodes | CPUs and memory | 4 nodes with 128 CPUs and 1024 GiB RAM each. In total 512 CPUs and 4.4 TiB RAM. |