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Kelvin2

Kelvin2 is named after Lord Kelvin who was born in Belfast in 1824.

A renowned physicist and engineer, famous for his work in thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale his work has had a lasting impact on science and technology.

The Kelvin statue in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens, beside Queens University symbolises the city's pride in his achievements and legacy in the field of science.

Kelvin2 is a scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) and Research Data Storage environment.

This is the second iteration of the cluster, replacing the previous "Kelvin" system.

Facilities 

  • 102 x 128 core Dell PowerEdge R6525 compute nodes with AMD EPYC 7702 dual 64-Core Processors (786GB RAM).
  • 8 High memory nodes (2TB RAM).
  • 32 x NVIDIA Tesla v100 GPUs in 8 nodes.
  • 16 x NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPUs in 4 nodes.
  • 4 x AMD MI300X GPU's in 1 node.
  • 4 x Nvidia H100 GPUs in 1 node.
  •  4 x Intel Max 1100 GPUs in 1 node.
  • 2PB of lustre parallel file system for scratch storage.
  • All compute nodes and storage are connected by EDR Infiniband fabric.
  • Compute nodes run ROCKY8.10 operating system.

If you have any queries about our facilities please Contact us.