BIMSA Compute Cluster

Introduction
BIMSA Compute Cluster (BCC) is a mid-powered, shared and scheduled cluster that aims to serve BIMSA academic and research activities. During Nov-2023, IT department at BIMSA conducted a survey on compute needs to faculties. Upon completion, IT has consolidated the needs, sought for possible solutions, allocated budgets from management, prepared and conducted a fair tender, evaluated the optimal solution, submitted for approval and finally exercised procurement processes. The cluster was acquired afterwards, properly configured and deployed. 

Payment Scheme
1. BCC is charged according to the following scheme:
- CPU ¥0.07 per core per hour
- GPU ¥2.00 per card per hour
2. Each user account have 500GB disk space for free. When exceeded, the charging scheme will be ¥1 per 500GB per day.


Basic Server Configuration
1. Compute Servers (6 sets)

Hardware

CPU

Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y (3.6GHz, 16C/32T)

Memory

768GB (24 x 32GB RDIMM 4800MT/s)

Storage

480GB SSD mounted on /
100TB Parallel and Shared File System mounted on /home

Network

10Gbps uplink (to login nodes)
25Gbps uplink (to storage)

GPU

Dual Nividia L40 GPU PCIe

Software

OS

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

System Packages

build-essentials

GPU Driver

Nvidia 550.90.07

CUDA

11.8

CUDNN

9.2.1.18

Anaconda

2024.06-1

Pytorch

2.4.0

2. Login Servers (2 Sets)

Hardware

CPU

Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y (2.6GHz, 24C/48T)

Memory

128GB (4 x 32GB RDIMM 4800MT/s)

Storage

480GB SSD mounted on /
100TB Parallel and Shared File System mounted on /home

Network

10Gbps uplink (to user network)
25Gbps uplink (to storage)

Software

OS

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

System Packages

build-essentials

Anaconda

2024.06-1