NREL Systems
NREL operates four on-premises systems for computational work.
System configurations
| Name |
Kestrel |
Eagle |
Swift |
Vermilion |
| OS |
RedHat Enterprise Linux |
CentOS |
Rocky Linux |
RedHat |
| Login |
kestrel.hpc.nrel.gov |
eagle.hpc.nrel.gov |
swift.hpc.nrel.gov |
vs.hpc.nrel.gov |
| CPU |
Dual socket Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids |
Dual Intel Xeon Gold Skylake 6154 |
Dual AMD EPYC 7532 Rome CPU |
Dual AMD EPYC 7532 Rome CPU |
| Cores per CPU Node |
104 cores |
36 cores |
128 cores |
Varies by partition |
| Interconnect |
HPE Slingshot 11 |
InfiniBand EDR |
InfiniBand HDR |
25GbE |
| HPC scheduler |
Slurm |
Slurm |
Slurm |
Slurm |
| Network Storage |
95PB Lustre |
17PB Lustre FS |
3PB NFS |
440 TB |
| GPU |
132 4x NVIDIA H100 SXM GPUs |
Dual NVIDIA Tesla V100 |
10 4x NVIDIA A100 40GB GPUs |
5 nodes Single A100 |
| Memory |
256GB, 384GB, 2TB |
96GB, 192GB, 768GB |
256GB(CPU) 1T(GPU) |
256GB (base) |
| Number of Nodes |
2454 |
2618 |
484 |
133 virtual |
Note
GPUs are not currently available on Kestrel. 132 nodes with 4x Nvidia H100 GPUs are expected to be installed on Kestrel in FY24 Q2.