Systems & Services

The HPC group operates all HPC production systems at RRZE. Together with our customers we also select and procure new systems regularly.

We are also the main point of service for scientists at the university with a demand for compute resources larger than what their local institutes can deliver. Our experts can help with code porting and portability issues, parallelization, optimization, and data management. If a user’s demand outgrows even the capacity of the RRZE clusters, we can help formulate proposals for the federal computing centers at Garching, Stuttgart, and Jülich.

The currently available main HPC systems are:

Linux based HPC compute nodes with large main memory / High performance computer TinyFat

TinyFat addresses applications with the demand for large main memory and has nodes with three different types:

8 nodes with 2x 2x Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 (“Broadwell”) @3.4 GHz = 12 cores/24 threadsand 256 GB main memory
3 nodes with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 (“Broadwell”) @2.4 GHz = 28 cores/56 threads and 512 GB main memory
36 nodes with 2x AMD Rome 7502 @2.5 GHz = 64 cores/128 threads and 512 GM main memory

All nodes have been purchased/financed by specific groups or special projects. These users have priority access and nodes may be reserved exclusively for them.

Further information: https://hpc.fau.de/systems-services/systems-documentation-instructions/clusters/tinyfat-cluster/

Linux based throughput computer / High performance computer Woody

The RRZE’s "Woody" is the preferred cluster for serial/single-node throughput jobs.

The cluster has changed significantly over time. You can find more about the history in the section about history. The current hardware configuration looks like this:

70 compute nodes (w11xx nodes) with Xeon E3-1240 v3 CPUs („Haswell“, 4 cores, HT disabled, 3,4 GHz base frequency), 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD – from 09/2013
64 compute nodes (w12xx/w13xx nodes) with Xeon E3-1240 v5 CPUs („Skylake“, 4 cores, HT disabled, 3,5 GHz base frequency), 32 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD – from 04/2016 and 01/2017
112 compute nodes (w14xx/w15xx nodes) with Xeon E3-1240 v6 CPUs („Kaby Lake“, 4 cores, HT disabled, 3,7 GHz base frequency), 32 GB RAM, 960 GB SDD – from Q3/2019

Further information: https://www.hpc.fau.de/systems-services/systems-documentation-instructions/clusters/woody-cluster/

Linux based GPGPU computer / High performance computer TinyGPU

TinyGPU addresses the increasing demand for GPGPU-accelerated HPC systems and has nodes with six different types of GPUs (mostly of consumer type):

7 nodes with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620v4 („Broadwell“, 8 Cores@2.1 GHz); 64 GB main memory; 4x NVIDIA Gefroce GTX 1080 (8 GB memory); 1.8 TB SSD
10 nodes with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620v4 („Broadwell“, 8 Cores@2.1 GHz); 64 GB main memory; 4x NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080Ti (11 GB memory); 1.8 TB SSD
12 nodes with 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6134 („Skylake“, 8 Cores@3.2 GHz); 96 GB main memory; 4x NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2080 Ti (11 GB memory); 1.8 TB SSD
4 nodes with 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6134 („Skylake“, 8 Cores@3.2 GHz); 96 GB main memory; 4x NVIDIA Tesla V100 (32 GB memory); 2.9 TB SSD
7 nodes with 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6226R („Cascadelake“, 16 Cores@2.9 GHz); 394 GB main memory; 8x NVIDIA Geforce RTX3080 (10 GB memory); 3,8 TB SSD
8 nodes with 2x AMD Epyc 7662 („Rome“, 64 Cores@2,0 GHz); 512 GB main memory; 4x NVIDIA A100 SXM4/Nvlink; 6,4 TB SSD

45 out of the 48 nodes have been purchased/financed by specific groups or special projects. These users have priority access and nodes may be reserved exclusively for them.

Further information: https://hpc.fau.de/systems-services/systems-documentation-instructions/clusters/tinygpu-cluster/

Linux based parallel computer / High performance computer Emmy

RRZE’s Emmy cluster (NEC) is a high-performance compute resource with high speed interconnect. It is intended for distributed-memory (MPI) or hybrid parallel programs with medium to high communication requirements.

560 compute nodes, each with two Xeon 2660v2 „Ivy Bridge“ chips (10 cores per chip + SMT) running at 2.2 GHz with 25 MB Shared Cache per chip and 64 GB of RAM.
2 front end nodes with the same CPUs as the compute nodes.
16 Nvidia K20 GPGPUs spread over 10 compute nodes plus 4 nodes each with a Nvidia V100/16GB GPGPU.
parallel filesystem (LXFS) with a capacity of 400 TB and an aggregated parallel I/O bandwidth of > 7000 MB/s
fat-tree InfiniBand interconnect fabric with 40 GBit/s bandwidth per link and direction
overall peak performance of ca. 234 TFlop/s (191 TFlop/s LINPACK, using only the CPUs).

The Emmy cluster is named after famous mathematician Emmy Noether who was born he

Further information: https://www.hpc.fau.de/systems-services/systems-documentation-instructions/clusters/emmy-cluster/

Linux based parallel computer / High performance computer Meggie

The RRZE’s Meggie cluster (manufacturer: Megware) is a high-performance compute resource with high speed interconnect. It is intended for distributed-memory (MPI) or hybrid parallel programs with medium to high communication requirements.

728 compute nodes, each with two Intel Xeon E5-2630v4 „Broadwell“ chips (10 cores per chip) running at 2.2 GHz with 25 MB Shared Cache per chip and 64 GB of RAM.
2 front end nodes with the same CPUs as the compute nodes but 128 GB of RAM.
Lustre-based parallel filesystem with a capacity of almost 1 PB and an aggregated parallel I/O bandwidth of > 9000 MB/s.
Intel OmniPath interconnect with up to 100 GBit/s bandwidth per link and direction.
Measured LINPACK performance of ~481 TFlop/s.

Meggie is a system that is designed for running parallel programs using significantly more than one node.

Further information: https://www.hpc.fau.de/systems-services/systems-documentation-instructions/clusters/meggie-cluster/