Dear VSC users,
Austria owns a small share of the LEONARDO DCGP (Data-Centric
General-Purpose) partition at the LEONARDO supercomputer operated by
CINECA in Bologna. The nodes of this partition are equipped with two
Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs, each with 56 cores, that are known for their
extremely high memory bandwidth. In addition, the DCGP partition uses
Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity, with smart in-network
computing acceleration engines that enable extremely low latency and
high data throughput to provide the highest HPC application performance
and scalability. The DCGP is a CPU only partition.
Test access to the LEONARDO DCGP partition is possible for active VSC
users in non-commercial projects and because of the limited amount of
resources it is suited for testing and/or benchmarking only. Such a test
access might be especially useful if you have a memory-bandwidth bound
application and in general for everyone interested to test the Intel
Sapphire Rapids CPUs. If after testing the DCGP partition appears to be
useful to you, we can help you to apply for a larger allocation on this
partition via a standard EuroHPC Access Call.
Active VSC users in non-commercial projects can get test access to the
LEONARDO DCGP partition by requesting a test user in the joint "DCGP
Austria 2024" project that is already in place at CINECA.
In order to apply, send an email to leonardo(a)vsc.ac.at telling your VSC
project and VSC username, when and how long you would like to get
access, and a short description of your project and why you think that
your application can benefit from using the LEONARDO DCGP partition (max
half a page).
We will check if your application is suitable for the LEONARDO DCGP
partition as well as eligibility and grant you short-term access on a
first-come first-serve basis. For this we will also ask you to register
in the CINECA User DB.
After your test access is over, we will ask you to provide a short
feedback (max half a page) about your experience with running your
application on the LEONARDO DCGP partition.
There is no formal deadline, we accept rolling applications until the
resources in the joint "DCGP Austria 2024" project are exhausted.
Best regards,
VSC team and HLST LEONARDO Austria
