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PSC Bridges-2 Regular Memory (Bridges-2 RM)

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Production Dates: 02/11/2021 - 09/30/2025

Public URL: https://cider.access-ci.org/public/resources/RDR_000643



Description: Bridges-2 Regular Memory (RM) nodes provide extremely powerful general-purpose computing, machine learning and data analytics, AI inferencing, and pre- and post-processing. Each Bridges RM node consists of two AMD EPYC “Rome” 7742 64-core CPUs, 256-512GB of RAM, and 3.84TB NVMe SSD. 488 Bridges-2 RM nodes have 256GB RAM, and 16 have 512GB RAM for more memory-intensive applications (see also Bridges-2 Extreme Memory nodes, each of which has 4TB of RAM). Bridges-2 RM nodes are connected to other Bridges-2 compute nodes and its Ocean parallel filesystem and archive by HDR-200 InfiniBand.

Recommended Use: Bridges-2 Regular Memory (RM) nodes provide extremely powerful general-purpose computing, machine learning and data analytics, AI inferencing, and pre- and post-processing. Their x86 CPUs support an extremely broad range of applications, and jobs can request anywhere from 1 core to all 64,512 cores of the Bridges-2 RM resource.

User Guide: https://www.psc.edu/resources/bridges-2/user-guide-2-2/

Gateway Recommended Use: Bridges-2 RM nodes are available as back-end computational engines. Bridges-2 also contains dedicated RM-type nodes for web servers and persistent databases.