Genius hardware#
Genius is one of KU Leuven/UHasselt’s Tier-2 clusters, which is in production since 2018. It has thin nodes, large memory nodes, as well as GPU nodes.
Hardware details#
144 thin nodes
2 Xeon Gold 6240 CPUs@2.6 GHz (Cascadelake), 18 cores each
(1 NUMA domain and 1 L3 cache per CPU)192 GiB RAM (memory bandwidth and latency measurements)
200 GB SSD local disk
partition
batch/batch_long
, specific Slurm options apply
12 interactive nodes
2 Xeon Gold 6140 CPUs@2.3 GHz (Skylake), 18 cores each
(1 NUMA domain and 1 L3 cache per CPU)192 GiB RAM (memory bandwidth and latency measurements)
200 GB SSD local disk
partition
interactive
, specific Slurm options apply
10 big memory nodes
2 Xeon Gold 6140 CPUs@2.3 GHz (Skylake), 18 cores each
(1 NUMA domain and 1 L3 cache per CPU)768 GiB RAM
200 GB SSD local disk
partition
bigmem
, specific Slurm options apply
22 GPGPU nodes, 96 GPU devices
20 P100 nodes
2 Xeon Gold 6140 CPUs@2.3 GHz (Skylake), 18 cores each
(1 NUMA domain and 1 L3 cache per CPU)192 GiB RAM
4 NVIDIA P100 SXM2@1.3 GHz, 16 GiB GDDR, connected with NVLink
200 GB SSD local disk
partition
gpu_p100
, specific Slurm options apply
2 V100 nodes
2 Xeon Gold 6240 CPUs@2.6 GHz (Cascadelake), 18 cores each
(1 NUMA domain and 1 L3 cache per CPU)768 GiB RAM
8 NVIDIA V100 SXM2@1.5 GHz, 32 GiB GDDR, connected with NVLink
200 GB SSD local disk
partition
gpu_v100
, specific Slurm options apply
4 AMD nodes
2 EPYC 7501 CPUs@2.0 GHz, 32 cores each
(4 NUMA domains and 8 L3 caches per CPU)256 GiB RAM
200 GB SSD local disk
partition
amd
, specific Slurm options apply
The nodes are connected using an Infiniband EDR network (bandwidth 25 Gb/s), the islands are indicated on the diagram below.