Talon Compute Nodes

Talon 3 is a heterogeneous cluster with five different compute node types. These specific nodes can be chosen in the SLURM queuing system by including a resource request option "#SBATCH -C" to meet your needs.

Quanity Memory(GB) Cores Description
192 64 GB 28 Dell PowerEdge C6320 server with two 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 fourteen-core processors
75 32 GB 16 Dell PowerEdge R420 server with two 2.1GHz Intel Xeon E5-2450 eight-core processors
64 64 GB 16 Dell PowerEdge R420 server with two 2.1GHz Intel Xeon E5-2450 eight-core processors
8 512 GB 32 Dell PowerEdge R720 server with four 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5-4640 eight-core processors
16 64 GB 28

Dell PowerEdge R730 server with two 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 fourteen-core processors & two Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUS (4,992 GPU cores/card)

High-Speed Interconnectivity

Each server is interconnected with Mellanox FDR InfiniBand at 56/Gbs.  In order to utilize this high speed fabric your codes must be compiled with openmpi libraries which we have compiled against the OFED stack: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-2.0-2.0.5.