{"id":14,"date":"2020-06-02T13:17:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:36:50","slug":"configuration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/overview\/configuration\/","title":{"rendered":"Current System Configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current config<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11,960 cores: 299 nodes of 40-core (2 x 20-core sockets) Intel &#8220;Cascade Lake&#8221; Xeon Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.10GHz + 192GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>954TB scratch running (GPFS 5.0.4-2)<\/li>\n<li>InfiniBand throughout (Mellanox 100 Gb\/sec (4X EDR))<\/li>\n<li>2 x Intel Xeon Gold + 2 x Intel Xeon Silver nodes for login and management nodes<\/li>\n<li>SLURM v22.05.10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Intel Cascade Lake CPUs provide all of the instruction sets available in the CSF3&#8217;s Skylake CPUs (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, S(upplemental)SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, and AVX512BW,CD,DQ,F,VL) but also the new AVX-512 Vector Neural Network Instructions (VNNI) for more efficient deep-learning inference calculations. If compiling your own source code, please see the <a href=\"\/csf4\/software\/compilers\/intel\">Intel Toolchain<\/a> for a small set of recommended compiler flags to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current config 11,960 cores: 299 nodes of 40-core (2 x 20-core sockets) Intel &#8220;Cascade Lake&#8221; Xeon Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.10GHz + 192GB RAM 954TB scratch running (GPFS 5.0.4-2) InfiniBand throughout (Mellanox 100 Gb\/sec (4X EDR)) 2 x Intel Xeon Gold + 2 x Intel Xeon Silver nodes for login and management nodes SLURM v22.05.10 The Intel Cascade Lake CPUs provide all of the instruction sets available in the CSF3&#8217;s Skylake CPUs (SSE, SSE2, SSE3,.. <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/overview\/configuration\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/1460"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}