Computational Facility
At ThSim MRC, we have the best computational facilities maintained by our team, designed to sustain our forays into computational material research.
Satya HPC
Master CPU node is built using Intel Xeon Cascade Lake 6248 2.5 GHz processors in a 2-socket configuration with 40 cores, 384 GB RAM (9.6 GB per core), and 2TB SSD local storage per node. There is also 84 TB additional storage.
Specifications
- One X11DPI-N Motherboard
- Two Xeon Cascadelake 6248 CPU
- Twelve 32GB-DDR4-2933-ECC REG (Micron) Memory
- One 2TB-Intel-OPAL-P4510-U.2-1DW SSD
- Seven 12TB SATA Ent. 3.5″ Seagate HDD
- AOC-S3108L-H8IR-16DD & MCX556A-ECAT
- MCP-110-82501-ON & MCP-220-00043-ON
CPU nodes are built using Intel Xeon Cascade Lake 6248 2.5 GHz processors in a 2-socket configuration with 40 cores, 1.5 TB RAM (38.4 GB per core), and 480 GB SSD local storage per node. There are a total of four such nodes on this system yielding a maximum of 160 cores.
Specifications
- One X11DPT-B Motherboard
- Two Xeon Cascadelake 6248 CPUs
- 24no 64GB-DDR4-2933-ECC REG Memory
- One 480GB Intel S4510 2.5″ SSD
- AOC-MGP-12M-O MCX556A-ECAT
- MCP-1600-E002E30//MCP-1600-E02AE26
CPU nodes are built using Intel Xeon Cascade Lake 6248 2.5GHz processors in a 2-socket configuration with 40 cores, 384GB RAM (9.6 GB per core), and 480GB SSD local storage per node. There are a total of nine such nodes on this system yielding a maximum of 360 cores.
Specifications
- One X11DPT-PS Motherboard
- Two Xeon Cascadelake 6248 CPUs
- Twelve 32GB-DDR4-2933-ECC REG (Micron) Memory
- One 480GB Intel S4510 2.5″ SSD
- AOC-MGP-12M-O MCX556A-ECAT
- MCP-220-00043-ON
Dirac HPC
Master CPU node is built using Intel Xeon Cascade Lake 6248 3.0 GHz processors in a 2-socket configuration with 48 cores, 192 GB RAM (9.6 GB per core), and 2TB SSD local storage per node. There is also 24 TB additional storage.
Specifications
- One MBD-X11DPI-N Motherboard
- Two Xeon Cascadelake 6248 CPUs
- Twelve 16GB-DDR4-2933-ECC REG (Micron) Memory
- One 2TB-Intel-OPAL-P4510-U.2-1DW SSD
- Seven 12TB SATA Ent. 3.5″ Seagate HDD
- AOC-S3108L-H8IR-16DD & MCX556A-ECAT
- MCP-110-82501-ON & MCP-220-00043-ON
CPU nodes are built using Intel Xeon Cascade Lake 6248 3.0 GHz processors in a 2-socket configuration with 48 cores, 192GB RAM (4 GB per core), and 2TB SSD local storage per node. There are a total of eight such nodes on this system yielding a maximum of 384 cores with SAS RAID controller and 2GB cache.
Specifications
- One MBD-X11DPT-PS Motherboard
- Two Xeon Cascadelake 6248 CPUs
- Twelve 16GB-DDR4-2933-ECC REG (Micron) Memory
- One 2TB-Intel-OPAL-P4510-U.2-1DW SSD
- AOC-MGP-12M-O & MCX556A-ECAT
- MCP-110-82501-ON & MCP-220-00043-ON
Kalam GPU
The CPU of each node consists of Intel Xeon G-6248 2.5 GHz processor in a 2-thred 2-socket configuration with 20 cores each, 384 GB RAM and 2TB SSD local storage. The GPU node is made up of four Nvidia V100 Tesla 32GB (HBM2 device memory) GPU cards.
PLANCK
- 16 E-2670 (2.6 GHz; code-named Sandy Bridge; 2nd gen Intel)
- 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM per core
- 500 GB (HDD) 2.5″ SATA per node
- 56 Gbps FDR Infiniband Single Port
- 2×1100 W SMPS (Main + redundant)
- 8 IE5-26xx series (2.2 GHz; 4th gen Intel)
- 1 TB (HDD) 2.5″ SATA per node
- 56 Gbps FDR Infiniband Single Port
- 2×1100 W SMPS (Main + redundant)
- Pooled memory of 256 GB DDR4 SDRAM per node
- 8 IE5-2600 v4 series (2.2 GHz; 4th gen Intel)
- 1 TB (HDD) 2.5″ SATA per node
- 56 Gbps FDR Infiniband Single Port
- 2×1100 W SMPS (Main + redundant)
- Pooled memory of 256 GB DDR4 SDRAM per node
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the support that these eminent organisations have given us in our quest to build a top-notch facility at our lab
Other Hardware
We have a set of high end workstations and other supporting hardware installed and functional in our labs
Software
Our researchers are proficient in multiple kinds of software and tools. These are the most popularly and widely used software in our labs.
