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BlueBEAR Standard Resources

Total available resources

The majority of BlueBEAR’s nodes are referred to as “shared” resources and are available to all users of the system. In addition to these standard shared nodes, all Dedicated Resources nodes are also available to all users, but only for jobs with a duration of less than 10 minutes (via the bbshort QOS) and when they are not in use by their associated projects.

The total ‘size’ of BlueBEAR is:

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For information on local /scratch storage, please see Use Local Disk Space.

Nodes Cores RAM Local /scratch NVIDIA GPUs AMD GPUs
598 46692 253TB+ 277TB+ 80 2*

* These GPU are currently experimental and will be piloted soon.

Specific shared resources

The shared resources available are made up as follows:

Standard Emerald Rapids nodes

Each of these nodes has 2x 56 core Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8570 and 512GB memory.

Nodes Cores RAM Local /scratch
60 112 512GB 791GB

Standard Sapphire Rapids nodes

Each of these nodes has 2x 56 core Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8480CL and 512GB memory.

Nodes Cores RAM Local /scratch
144 112 512GB 791GB

Standard Ice Lake nodes

Each of these nodes has 2x 36 core Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8360Y and 512GB memory.

Nodes Cores RAM Local /scratch
104 72 512GB 344GB
112 72 512GB 791GB

GPU Ice Lake nodes

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GPUs are available to all users but must be requested on a per-project basis. For more information on GPU nodes, please see the GPUs page.

Nodes Cores RAM Local /scratch GPU per node
10 72 512GB 791GB 4x NVIDIA A100 40GB
2 72 512GB 1.7TB NVMe 4x NVIDIA A100 80GB
2 56 512GB 344GB 2x NVIDIA A100 40GB
2 56 512GB 344GB 2x NVIDIA A30 24GB

Standard Cascade Lake nodes

Each of these nodes has 2x 20 core Intel® Xeon® Gold 6248 and 192GB memory.

Nodes Cores RAM Local /scratch
109 40 192GB 16GB