Sigma
Sigma is a 108-node HPC cluster funded by and dedicated to Linköping University users.
Sigma replaced the previous cluster Gamma in August 2018.
Sigma is very similar to NSC's much larger Tetralith cluster. This allows LiU users to easily move to Tetralith when the Sigma resources are insufficient.
Hardware and software environment
Sigma is running a CentOS 7 version of the NSC Cluster System Environment. This means that most things are very familiar to Gamma users.
All Sigma compute nodes have 32 CPU cores. There are 104 "thin" nodes with 96 GiB of primary memory (RAM) and 4 "fat" nodes with 384 GiB. Each compute node has a local SSD disk where applications can store temporary files (approximately 200GiB per thin node, 900GiB per fat node).
All Sigma nodes are interconnected with a 100 Gbps Intel Omni-Path network which is also used to connect the existing storage. The Omni-Path network is similar to the FDR Infiniband network in Gamma (e.g still a fat-tree topology).
The hardware was delivered by ClusterVision B.V.
The servers used are Intel HNS2600BPB compute nodes, hosted in the 2U Intel H2204XXLRE chassis and equipped with Intel Xeon Gold 6130 for a total of 32 CPU cores per compute node.
Additional information
Sigma applications (note: all Tetralith applications are available on Sigma)
User Area
