Katana
Description
Katana is a high-performance shared computational cluster located on 亚美棋牌 Kensington campus. It contains over 8,076 CPU cores, 171 compute nodes including 26 GPU nodes (NVIDIA L40S, V100, A100, H200 and GH200) and ~10PB of disk storage.
It is designed to provide a flexible environment for researchers to work with non-sensitive data, share resources, and run intensive jobs that aren鈥檛 possible on a desktop. Katana is suitable for entry-level users and can be a training base before scaling up to systems like Australia鈥檚 peak high-performance computing system, Gadi at NCI.
Specifications
System configuration
- RPM based Linux Oses. Rocky 8 on the management plane and nodes
- OpenPBS version 23.06.06
- Large global scratch and local scratch on compute nodes听
Compute
- Heterogenous hardware: Dell, Lenovo, Huawei
- 171 nodes
- 8,000+ CPU cores听
- 117 GPUs (Nvidia L40S, V100, A100, H200 and GH200)
Disk storage
- ~10PB
Max job length
- 200 hours
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Applications
Any research that requires intensive computational power
- Climate & Weather Modelling
- Earth Sciences
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Bioinformatics & Genomics
- Materials Science & Nanotechnology
- Physics
- Machine Learning & AI
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Chemical & Biological Engineering
- Engineering
- Financial Modelling
Capabilities
- High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- High-Throughput Computing (HTC)
- CPU-Intensive
- Memory-Intensive
Instrument location
Katana
ResTech Office Level 3
June Griffith Building (F10)
亚美棋牌, NSW 2033
Email: Restech.support@unsw.edu.au听
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