Computational Resources

Tempest is an HPC cluster consisting of EPYC X86 CPU and Nvidia GPU nodes. In total, Tempest currently has 15,360 logical CPU cores, 65TB of ECC memory,  130 Nvidia GPUs. For storage, Tempest currently has 1.1PB of all-flash high-speed storage. Tempest components are interconnected by 100/50Gb Ethernet with.

For more information, see the detailed description of computational resources

Cluster Partitions

Tempest currently has the following partitions:

Partition
Descritpion
priority
The primary priority-access partition
unsafe
Preemptible partition with access to all unused CPU node resources
gpupriority
The primary priority-access GPU partition
gpuunsafe
Preemptible partition with access to all unused GPU node resources
fairshare
Fairshare partition with the newest hardware
gpufairshare
Fairshare partition with the newest GPU hardware

 

For a more detailed description of the partitions, see the partition information.

For guidance on which partition to use, see the partition use case documentation.