This cluster has been decommissioned in October 2020.

Hosted at ULB, the Vega cluster consisted of 14 fat nodes, each with
64 cores (four 16-core AMD Bulldozer 6272 @ 2.1 GHz) and 256 GB RAM.
Nodes were interconnected using QDR Infiniband and backed by 70 TB GPFS high-performance storage.

Suitable for:

Many-core workloads (SMP, MPI) and large batches of single-core jobs.
Max wall time: 14 days.

Resources

  • Home/Working directory /home ($GLOBALSCRATCH = $HOME, 200 GB quota)
  • Internet access available on nodes
  • Default batch queue*
    (14 days max, 400 CPUs/user, 350 running jobs/user, 1000 queued jobs/user)

Access / Support

This cluster is decommissioned and no longer accessible.

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