PSC Bridges-2 Extreme Memory (Bridges-2 EM)

Resource Type

Compute

Latest Status

production

Description

Bridges-2 combines high-performance computing (HPC), high performance artificial intelligence (HPAI), and large-scale data management to support simulation and modeling, data analytics, community data, and complex workflows.

Bridges-2 Extreme Memory (EM) nodes enable memory-intensive genome sequence assembly, graph analytics, in-memory databases, statistics, and other applications that need a large amount of memory and for which distributed-memory implementations are not available. Bridges-2 Extreme Memory (EM) nodes each consist of 4 Intel Xeon Platinum 8260M “Cascade Lake” CPUs, 4TB of DDR4-2933 RAM, 7.68TB NVMe SSD. They are connected to Bridges-2's other compute nodes and its Ocean parallel filesystem and archive by two HDR-200 InfiniBand links, providing 400Gbps of bandwidth to read or write data from each EM node.

User Guide URL

http://www.psc.edu/resources/bridges-2/user-guide

Features

Is an ACCESS Allocated Production Compute resource

General compute use

Resource is allocated by ACCESS

Specialized analysis nodes with large memory

ACCESS Online Service directly usable by ACCESS projects

ACCESS Online Service providing software interfaces or targeting developers

ACCESS Online Service directly usable by compute/storage/cloud resource providers

Is a Science Gateway integrated into ACCESS and able to use ACCESS allocated resources

ACCESS Online Service directly usable by allocated users

Resource supports allocated user advanced reservations

Resource supports community software areas for users to share software with other users

Resource supports community accounts for science gateways

Resource support community software areas for science gateways to share software on a resource

Resource support hosting of science gateway data collections

Resource supports virtual hosting of science gateway web interface

has advance reservations

Support for Science Gateways

Run Jobs and Workflows on ACCESS Resources from a Single Entry Point

An intuitive, innovative, and interactive interface to remote computing resources

Resource support hosting of science gateway databases

Resource supports virtual hosting of science gateway services

Agency supercomputers and advanced architecture systems

NSF ACSS Category 1 Resources

Organization Name

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Global Resource ID

bridges2-em.psc.access-ci.org