HPC-Cluster bonna

A small HPC-cluster called bonna is available to scientists since 2019. It is maintained and supported mainly by the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI.

Technical details:

Peak Performance:  1,5 * 10^14 operations per second (150 TFlop/s)

70 Compute Nodes:

• total # cores = 2240
• # sockets / node = 2
• # cores / socket = 16
• total RAM = 13.4 TB
• RAM / node = 192 GB
• RAM / core = 6 GB
• Local SSDs: 2x480GB SSD Raid1
• Network Connections: Omnipath Full Bisection Fat Tree

Storage:

• scratch storage = 428 TB
• additional node-local SSD scratch = 2 TB / node

Operating System / Software:

• CentOS
• Batch System: slurm

Accounts:

You already have an account?

From the university network (or VPN), you can access the Bonna Getting Started Wiki providing e.g. information about connecting via ssh, and also the Open OnDemand portal for remote browser-based shell access and Jupyter Notebooks.

You do not have an account or it is expired?
Use the following forms to register, prolongate, or extend (for multiple research group accounts) your Bonna account.