Lyra

Lyra is QUT's High-Performance-Computer (HPC) cluster. Lyra is a Beowulf cluster of interconnected Linux computers. Users run workloads on Lyra by by scheduling jobs with Altair PBS Professional.

Lyra is available at no cost, to all researchers at QUT. Request an HPC account here.

You can use Lyra to run arbitrary software that makes use of susbtantial CPU, GPU, Memory, and Storage.

Nodes

Each node in the cluster is a Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12) server.

To see Lyra's nodes, run the following:

pbsnodeinfo

$ pbsnodeinfo
Node    :   cputype |        cpuarch ;    cpu usage;    mem usage; gputype; gpu usage
=====================================================================================
cl4n001 : E7-8890v4 |       avx,avx2 ;  6 / 192 cpus; 500 / 5794 GB
cl4n002 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 20 / 36 cpus;  62 / 186 GB;  P100; 3 / 4 gpus
cl4n003 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 28 / 36 cpus; 160 / 186 GB;  P100; 4 / 4 gpus
cl4n007 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 36 / 36 cpus; 291 / 376 GB
cl4n008 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 33 / 36 cpus; 200 / 376 GB
cl4n009 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 35 / 36 cpus; 371 / 376 GB
cl4n010 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 34 / 36 cpus; 287 / 376 GB
cl4n011 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 34 / 36 cpus; 188 / 376 GB
cl4n012 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 31 / 36 cpus; 368 / 376 GB
cl4n013 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 35 / 36 cpus; 332 / 376 GB
cl4n014 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 36 / 36 cpus; 361 / 376 GB
cl4n015 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 35 / 36 cpus; 372 / 376 GB
cl4n016 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 35 / 36 cpus; 372 / 376 GB
cl4n017 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 35 / 36 cpus; 364 / 376 GB
cl4n018 :      6140 |avx,avx2,avx512 ; 23 / 36 cpus; 376 / 376 GB
...

General nodes

For general workloads that use the CPU

# Number	CPU	Memory
96	2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6140 (18 cores)	376 GB
34	2x AMD EPYC™ 7702 (64 cores)	1006 GB

Accelerated nodes

For accelerated workloads that use discrete cards

# Number	CPU	Memory	GPU(s)
8	2x AMD EPYC™ 7713 (64 cores)	1006 GB	8x NVIDIA A100
4	2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6248 (20 cores)	186 GB	4x NVIDIA P100
2	2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6140 (18 cores)	186 GB	4x NVIDIA T4
1	2x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 (24 cores)	186 GB	1x NVIDIA V100

Large Memory nodes

For specialised workloads that need lots of memory

# Number	CPU	Memory
1	4x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 (24 cores)	5794 GB