Blanca HPC

Blanca High-Performance Compute Nodes (HPC) are the newest addition to the suite of nodes currently available to Blanca contributors. The HPC nodes are designed to support low-latency InfiniBand for Message Passing Interface (MPI) communication. This form of parallel computing allows discrete nodes to communicate during a distributed computation. This allows contributors to run multi-node distributed parallel computing jobs. Currently, the National Solar Observatory, the Aerospace Mechanics Research Center (AMReC), and Research Computing have contributed HPC nodes to Blanca.

Example ConfigurationSpecificationsCostNotes
HPC Node
  • 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6120 (2.1 GHZ, 16-core, "Skylake"
  • 192 GiB RAM (2666 MT/s)
  • 480 GB local ssd
  • 10-gigabit Ethernet
  • Mellanox EDR (100Gb/sec)
$7,712.90/nodebatch processing, high-throughput computation, high-performance parallel/distributed computation