PSC Bridges-2 Extreme Memory (Bridges-2 EM)
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Resource Type: Compute
User Guide: https://www.psc.edu/resources/bridges-2/user-guide
Recommended Use: Bridges-2 Extreme Memory (EM) nodes enable memory-intensive genome sequence assembly, graph analytics, statistics, in-memory databases, and other applications that need a large amount of memory and for which distributed-memory implementations are not available. This includes memory-intensive applications implemented in languages such as Java, R, and Python. Their x86 CPUs support an extremely broad range of applications, and approximately 42GB of RAM per core provides valuable support for applications where memory capacity is the primary requirement.
Latitude: 40.445639428713996
Longitude: -79.94902165782835
Production Dates: 02/11/2021 - 09/30/2025
Public URL: https://cider.access-ci.org/public/resources/RDR_000645
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.