Link to section 'Overview of Gilbreth' of 'Overview of Gilbreth' Overview of Gilbreth
Gilbreth is a Community Cluster optimized for communities running GPU intensive applications such as machine learning. Gilbreth consists of Dell compute nodes with Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia Tesla GPUs.
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Gilbreth is named in honor of Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Purdue's first female engineering professor. More information about her life and impact on Purdue is available in a Biography of Lillian Moller Gilbreth.
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Gilbreth has heterogeneous hardware comprising of Nvidia V100, A100, A10, and A30 GPUs in separate sub-clusters. All the nodes are connected by 100 Gbps Infiniband interconnects. Please see the hardware specifications below for details about various node types.
| Front-Ends | Number of Nodes | Cores per Node | Memory per Node | GPUs per node (GPU memory per card) | Retires in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With GPU | 4 | 64 | 512 GB | 1 A30 (24 GB) | 2027 |
| Sub-Cluster | Number of Nodes | Cores per Node | Memory per Node | GPUs per node (GPU memory per card) | Retires in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | 16 | 24 | 192 GB | 3 A30 (24 GB) | 2027 |
| C | 3 | 20 | 768 GB | 4 V100 (32 GB) with NVLink | 2024 |
| D | 8 | 16 | 192 GB | 3 A30 (24 GB) | 2027 |
| E | 16 | 16 | 192 GB | 2 V100 (16 GB) | 2024 |
| F | 5 | 40 | 192 GB | 2 V100 (32 GB) | 2025 |
| G | 12 | 128 | 512 GB | 2 A100 (40 GB) | 2026 |
| H | 16 | 32 | 512 GB | 3 A10 (24 GB) | 2027 |
| I | 5 | 32 | 512 GB | 2 A100 (80 GB) | 2027 |
| J | 2 | 128 | 1024 GB | 4 A100 (80 GB) with NVLink | 2027 |
| K | 52 | 64 | 512 GB | 2 A100 (80 GB) | 2028 |
Gilbreth nodes run CentOS 7 and use Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) as the batch scheduler for resource and job management. The application of operating system patches occurs as security needs dictate. All nodes allow for unlimited stack usage, as well as unlimited core dump size (though disk space and server quotas may still be a limiting factor).
On Gilbreth, the following set of compiler, math library, and message-passing library for parallel code are recommended:
- Intel/17.0.1.132
- MKL
- Intel MPI
This compiler and these libraries are loaded by default. To load the recommended set again:
$ module load rcac
To verify what you loaded:
$ module list