BlueCrystal 4 and BluePebble technical specifications

BlueCrystal Phase 4 

BlueCrystal Phase 4 was primarily designed for large parallel jobs and work requiring the Nvidia P100 GPUs. BlueCrystal Phase 4 (BC4) is available for use in academic research at the University of Bristol it is capable of up to 600 trillion calculations per second.  

BC4 has the following technology:

  • Each of the 525 Lenovo nx360 m5 compute nodes has two 14 core 2.4 GHz Intel E5-2680 v4 (Broadwell) CPUs, and 128 GiB of RAM.
  • There are 17 extra high memory nodes, each of which has 512 GiB of RAM.
  • There are 32 GPU nodes with two cards each, plus 1 GPU in a login node, totalling 65 GPUs

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BluePebble

BluePebble is a system targeted for high throughput computing. It contains a range of standard, GPU and some large memory nodes.

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