HPC Resources

CAMSA is a Dell cluster with a rich accelerator testbed consisting of Intel MAX GPUs (Graphic Processing Units), Intel FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), NVIDIA and Graphcore IPUs. The CAMSA cluster consists of compute nodes using a mix of the following processors.

• Power Edge R650 Head Node x2: Intel Xeon Gold 6330 512 RDIMM 2TB
• Power Edge R650 Login Node x2: Intel Xeon Gold 5118 256 RDIMM 2TB
• Power Edge R420 Compute Node x5: Intel Xeon Gold 622XR 512 RDIMM 2TB
• Power Edge R750 GPU Node: Intel Xeon Gold 6330 512 RDIMM 2TB
• Power Edge R650 NFS Storage Node x5: Intel Xeon Gold 6330 512 RDIMM 2TB
• Power Edge C6420 x10: Intel Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9G, 16C/32T, 10.4GT/s, 22 M Cache, Turbo, HT (150W) DDR4-2933

CAMSA Overview

• Slurm‑managed HPC cluster (with backfill scheduling)
• 20 total compute nodes
• 2 login nodes
• 18 CPU compute nodes (32 cores per node; 600+ cores total)
• 4 GPU compute nodes
• 6 × NVIDIA A100‑PCIE‑40GB GPUs (2 per node)
• Separate CPU and GPU job partitions

GPU Capabilities

• NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 40 GB HBM2 memory
• Tensor Core acceleration
• CUDA 12.x support

Use Cases

• Modeling and simulation
• Machine learning and AI
• Data‑intensive analytics
• Faculty‑student research
• NSF‑funded research projects