Hardware Specs
See what powers HPC @ UW-Eau Claire
The Blugold Center for High Performance Computing has two supercomputing clusters available for our students, faculty, and staff to use: BOSE and BGSC. By administrating over 80 machines total, we're able to fulfill the ever increasing computing needs of our researchers and classrooms.
BOSE
Thanks to being awarded an NSF grant (MRI #1920220) along with an in-kind grant of hardware from HPE, we've been able to bring online our new BOSE system in 2021. Becoming our flagship computing cluster, BOSE has successfully tripled our available resources and brought in all kinds of new research projects and opportunities that wasn't previously possible.
Primary Purpose: Research + Jupyter Use
| Node Name | CPU Model | CPU Cores (Total) |
CPU Clock (Base) |
Memory (Slurm) | GPU Model | GPU Cores | Interconnect | Local Scratch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cn[01-56] | AMD EPYC 7452 (x2) | 64 | 2.35 GHz | 245 GB | - | - | Slingshot (100 Gbps) | 800 GB |
| gpu[01-03] | AMD EPYC 7452 (x2) | 64 | 2.35 GHz | 245 GB | Tesla V100S (x3) | 5120 (x3) | Slingshot (100 Gbps) | 400 GB |
| gpu04 | AMD EPYC 7452 (x2) | 64 | 2.35 GHz | 1 TB | Tesla V100S (x3) | 5120 (x3) | Slingshot (100 Gbps) | 400 GB |
| lm[01-03] | AMD EPYC 7452 (x2) | 64 | 2.35 GHz | 1 TB | - | - | Slingshot (100 Gbps) | 400 GB |
BGSC
Our first official computing cluster at UW-Eau Claire, BGSC was initially brought online in 2012 thanks to a Blugold Differential Tuition grant. Combining existing hardware from the Chemistry department, along with newly purchased hardware with the grant, we were able to put together a single system for any computing needs on campus, which kickstarted the process to what we are today.
Primary Purpose: Classroom Use
| Node Name | CPU Model | CPU Cores (Total) |
CPU Clock (Base) |
Memory |
GPU Model | GPU Cores | Interconnect | Local Scratch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
compute[29-33] |
Intel Xeon E5430 (x2) | 8 | 2.66 GHz | 16 GB | - | - | Ethernet | 125 GB |
| compute[37-40] | Intel Xeon X5450 (x2) | 12 | 2.67 GHz | 24 GB | - | - | Ethernet | 450 GB |
| compute[58-67] | Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (x2) | 20 | 2.5 GHz | 80 GB | - | - | Infiniband (40 Gbps) | 900 GB |
| compute[68-70] | Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (x2) | 20 | 2.5 GHz | 80 GB | Tesla K20m (x4) | 2496 (x4) | Infiniband (40 Gbps) | 900 GB |
| compute[71-73] | Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 (x2) | 32 | 2.1 GHz | 60 GB | - | - | Infiniband (40 Gbps) | 100 GB |