Overview of Geddes¶
Geddes is a Community Composable Platform optimized for composable, cloud-like workflows that are complementary to the batch applications run on Community Clusters. Funded by the National Science Foundation under grant OAC-2018926, Geddes consists of Dell Compute nodes with two 64-core AMD Epyc 'Rome' processors (128 cores per node).
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Geddes Namesake¶
Geddes is named in honor of Lanelle Geddes, a Purdue professor and Head of the School of Nursing. More information about her life and impact on Purdue is available in a Biography of Lanelle Geddes.
Geddes Specifications¶
All Geddes compute nodes have 128 processor cores and 100 Gbps Infiniband interconnects.
Geddes Hyperconverged Worker Nodes¶
| Worker Type | Number of Nodes | Processors per Node | Cores per Node | Storage per Node | Memory per Node |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 8 | Two AMD Epyc CPUs @ 2.0GHz | 128 | 24 TB SATA SSD | 1 TB |
| B | 16 | Two AMD Epyc CPUs @ 2.0GHz | 128 | 24 TB SATA SSD | 512 GB |
Geddes Hyperconverged GPU Nodes¶
| Number of Nodes | Processors per Node | Cores per Node | GPUs per Node | Storage per Node | Memory per Node |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Two AMD Epyc CPUs @ 2.0GHz | 128 | 2 Nvidia A100 | 24 TB SATA SSD | 512 GB |
Geddes Storage Nodes¶
| Number of Nodes | Processors per Node | Cores per Node | Storage per Node | Memory per Node |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Two Intel Xeon Gold 6126 | 24 | 24 TB NVMe | 192 GB |
Geddes nodes run Rocky 8 and use Rancher and Kubernetes as the resource manager for resource and workload orchestration.