Zythos

Zythos, a latest-generation SGI UV2000 system, is a large shared-memory machine targeted towards memory-intensive jobs. Zythos consists of 24 UV blades. Twenty of the blades each contain two hex-core Intel Sandy Bridge processors and 128 GB RAM, and the remaining four each contain a single hex-core Intel processor, an NVIDIA Kepler K20 GPU, and 256 GB RAM. Altogether the machine boasts 264 CPU-cores, 4 GPUs, and a total of 6 TB RAM. Zythos is a partition within the Zeus cluster. Time on Zythos is allocated through the iVEC Director’s Share.

Vital statistics

Manufacturer: SGI (USA)
Model: UV2000 Series
Compute Processors: Intel Xeon E5-4610 “Sandy Bridge”, 6 cores/2.5 GHz
GPU Processors: NVIDIA Kepler K20
Memory: 6 TB RAM (20 blades with 8 x 16 GB 1866MHz DIMMS, 4 blades with 8 x 32 GB 1333MHz DIMMS)
Operating System: SUSE Linux (SLES) 11