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About M3#
M3 is the third stage of MASSIVE.
MASSIVE is a High Performance Computing (HPC) facility designed specifically to process complex data. Since 2010, MASSIVE has played a key role in driving discoveries across many disciplines including biomedical sciences, materials research, engineering and geosciences.
MASSIVE is pioneering and building high performance computing upon Monash’s specialist Research Cloud fabric. M3 has been supplied by Dell with a Mellanox low latency network and NVIDIA GPUs.
System configuration#
Total number of cores: 5673
Total number of GPU cores: 1,752,576 CUDA cores
Total memory: 63.2 TBytes
Storage capacity: 5.6 PBytes Lustre parallel file system
Network: RoCE v2 via mixed speed Mellanox ConnectX cards
M3 utilises SLURM scheduler to manage the partitions available to users, with different configurations to suit a variety of computational requirements. Details about the partitions can be found here.
M3 provides the following configurations:
Compute#
Name |
Partition |
Nodes |
CPU Cores per node |
Total CPU cores in partition |
Memory per node (GB) |
CPU Speed |
Processor model |
Codename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High-Density CPUs |
m3d |
6 |
48 |
288 |
790 |
2.20 GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 |
Cascade Lake |
High-Density CPUs |
m3i |
47 |
36 |
1,692 |
171 |
2.70 GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 |
Skylake |
High-Density CPUs with High Memory |
m3j |
11 |
36 |
396 |
357 |
2.70 GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 |
Skylake |
High-Density CPUs with Extra High Memory |
m3m |
1 |
36 |
36 |
1,024 |
2.70 GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 |
Skylake |
Short Jobs |
short |
3 |
27 |
81 |
128 |
2.70 GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 |
Skylake |
GPU Compute#
Name |
Partition |
Nodes |
CPU Cores per node |
Total CPU cores in partition |
Memory per node (GB) |
Number of GPUs per node |
Total GPUs in partition |
GPU model |
GPU cores per card |
CPU Speed |
Processor model |
Codename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T4 |
gpu |
2 |
52 |
104 |
1055 |
8 |
16 |
NVIDIA Tesla T4 |
2,560 |
2.10GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6230R |
Cascade Lake |
V100 |
m3g |
24 |
36 |
864 |
384 |
3 |
72 |
NVIDIA Tesla V100 |
5,120 |
2.70GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 |
Skylake |
A40 |
gpu |
4 |
52 |
312 |
1056 |
4 |
12 |
NVIDIA A40 |
10,752 |
2.20GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 5320 |
Ice Lake |
DGX1 |
dgx |
11 |
40 |
440 |
512 |
8 |
88 |
NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB |
5,120 |
2.20GHz |
Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 |
Broadwell |
Remote desktops through the CVL#
Name |
Partition |
Desktop |
CPU Cores per desktop |
Total CPU cores in partition |
Memory per desktop (GB) |
Number of GPUs per desktop |
Total GPUs in partition |
GPU model |
GPU cores per card |
CPU Speed |
Processor model |
Codename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
P4 - Light Compute |
m3p |
60 |
6 |
396 |
55 |
1 |
60 |
NVIDIA Tesla P4 |
2,560 |
2.70GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 |
Skylake |
Single T4 - Light Compute |
desktop |
<32 |
6 |
192 |
100 |
1 |
32 |
NVIDIA Tesla T4 |
2560 |
2.10GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6230R |
Cascade Lake |
Dual T4 - Heavy Compute |
desktop |
<16 |
13 |
192 |
225 |
2 |
32 |
NVIDIA Tesla T4 |
2560 |
2.10GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 6230R |
Cascade Lake |
A40 - Heavy Compute |
desktop |
16 |
13 |
208 |
250 |
1 |
16 |
NVIDIA A40 |
10,752 |
2.20GHz |
Intel Xeon Gold 5320 |
Ice Lake |