These were integrated into the running system during the last month.

The new hardware includes 24 nodes with AMD EPYC 7713 CPUs (64 cores), of these:

• 4 'highmem' nodes with 1 TB of memory and 3.7 TB of local SSD storage,
• 20 'gpu-ready' nodes (4 slots for server-grade GPUs) with 256 GB of memory and 1.7 TB local SSD storage.

Additionally, 5 NVidia A100 80 GB GPUs have been installed into two of the 'gpu-ready' nodes (1x 4 GPUs, 1x 1 GPU).

Financing of the new nodes was primarily provided by the Institute for Translational Proteomics (Department of Medicine) and the interdisciplinary cluster project "The Adaptive Mind", with additional contributions and coordination by der Center of Synthetic Microbiology ('Synmikro').

The additional hardware almost doubles the amount of MaRC3a's compute nodes (from 26 to now 50) and thus significantly increases the amount of available resources and potential job throughput.

Contact:
Dr. Marcus Lechner
lechner@staff.uni-marburg.de