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
https://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
AI tools and support
NAIRR Pilot (Research)
Provides Globus data transfer and data sharing services for local storage
Organization Name
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Global Resource ID
bridges2-em.psc.access-ci.org
https://cider.access-ci.org/public/resources/RDR_000645