NCSA Delta CPU (Delta CPU)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Resource Type: Compute
User Guide: https://docs.ncsa.illinois.edu/systems/delta/en/latest/index.html
Recommended Use: The Delta CPU resource is designed for general purpose computation across a broad range of domains able to benefit from the scalar and multi-core performance provided by the CPUs such as appropriately scaled weather and climate, hydrodynamics, astrophysics, and engineering modeling and simulation, and other domains that have algorithms that have not yet moved to the GPU. Delta also supports domains that employ data analysis, data analytics, or other data-centric methods. Delta features a rich base of preinstalled applications, based on user demand. The system is optimized for capacity computing, with rapid turnaround for small to modest scale jobs, and features support for shared-node usage. Local SSD storage on each compute node benefits applications with random access data patterns or require fast access to significant amounts of compute-node local scratch space. This allocation type is specific to and required for the CPU-only nodes on Delta. Request this allocation type if you have CPU only parts to your workflow.
Latitude: 40.115044545003485
Longitude: -88.22466728245507
Production Dates: 09/19/2022 - 08/31/2027
Public URL: https://cider.access-ci.org/public/resources/RDR_000741
Description: The Delta CPU resource comprises 124 dual-socket compute nodes for general purpose computation across a broad range of domains able to benefit from the scalar and multi-core performance provided by the CPUs, such as appropriately scaled weather and climate, hydrodynamics, astrophysics, and engineering modeling and simulation, and other domains using algorithms not yet adapted for the GPU. Each Delta CPU node is configured with 2 AMD EPYC 7763 (“Milan”) processors with 64-cores/socket (128-cores/node) at 2.45GHz and 256GB of DDR4-3200 RAM. An 800GB, NVMe solid-state disk is available for use as local scratch space during job execution. All Delta CPU compute nodes are interconnected to each other and to the Delta storage resource by a 100 Gb/sec HPE Slingshot network fabric.