Upgrade and Expansion 2024

New HPC Cluster MedicineBow (working name: Thunderer)

Medicine Bow is a major addition to ARCC’s primary HPC cluster environment. The expansion will replace ARCC’s primary HPC environment, Beartooth. Hardware specifications for the expansion are listed in the following table:

Allocations 

#Nodes 

Cores /
Node 

RAM 

GPU 

GPUs / Node 

Processor 

TensorCores/GPU & CUDACores/GPU 

CPU  

25 

96 CPU Cores per Node 

 

1024GB/Node 

N/A 

N/A 

2x 48-Core/96-Thread 4th Gen AMD EPYC 9454 

 

N/A 

A30 GPU  

768GB/Node
24GB/GPU 

Nvidia A30 

224 TC/GPU
3804 FP32 CUDA/GPU 

L40S GPU 

768GB/Node
48GB/GPU 

Nvidia L40S 

568 TC/GPU 

H100 GPU  

1.5TB/Node
80GB/GPU 

Nvidia SXM5 H100 

528 TC/GPU
16896 FP32 CUDA/GPU 

Hardware from Beartooth that remains viable (e.g. less than 8 years old) may moved into the new cluster. If you are an investor or have a concern, please contact arcc-help@uwyo.edu. A complete list of hardware that will be available in the new cluster will be available soon.

Data Storage Upgrades

The new Vast data storage system will go live on June 1st, 2024. This storage system is comprised of high speed all-NVMe storage housing 3 petabytes of raw storage. The VAST storage system also employs data de-duplication which will allow the system to logically store much more than the 3PB petabytes raw available on the system.

Users should notice minimal changes with respect to how they access and use their data storage on Alcova and TetonCreek (Beartooth) today.

Specific details for the new storage system will be available soon.