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HPC infrastructure of the University of Bonn

Here you find information on central and decentralized HPC infrastructure at University of Bonn.

bonna

The University of Bonn’s largest central HPC cluster, known as “bonna”, was created in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing at Birlinghoven.

Information for HPC users (incl. registration form for bonna)

Operational startup: 2019; step one in a series of planned expansion stages.

Data:

  • total # cores = 2240
  • interconnect = OmniPath
  • topology = Full Bisection Fat Tree
  • # nodes = 70
  • # sockets / node = 2
  • # cores / socket = 16
  • total RAM = 13.4 TB
  • RAM / node = 192 GB
  • RAM / core = 6 GB
  • peak performance 100 TFLOPS (1014 floating-point operations per second)
  • scratch storage = 428 TB
  • additional node-local SSD scratch = 2 TB / node
Bonna network interfaces
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Decentralized HPC infrastructure of the University of Bonn

The University of Bonn additionally maintains decentralized/local HPC computing capacity. For further information in this regard please contact the HPC/A Lab.