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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.

Partitions

For more details on the specific CPUs and GPUs available, please see Partitions on M3.