Greene
The NYU Greene high performance computing (HPC) cluster is a powerful system that bolsters research across a wide range of disciplines, from genomics and biomolecular genetics to the political ramifications of social media behavior to artificial intelligence.
Highlights
350 in the June 2022 edition of the Top500 list (CPU only, 2.088 petaflops, Linpack)
The overall performance of Greene (CPUs and GPUs) exceeds 4 petaflops
(10 times more powerful than its predecessor, the NYU HPC Prince cluster)NVIDIA and AMD GPUs cards
Greene is a general purpose cluster that supports a variety of job types and sizes, including jobs requiring multiple CPU cores, multiple GPU cards, terabytes of memory, to single core serial jobs. Greene went into production on November 18th, 2020 when the NYU President Andrew Hamilton announced the new cluster in a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Greene is Green!
Most of the cluster compute nodes are water-cooled using Lenovo's Neptune liquid cooling technology. The remaining nodes are air-cooled and are deployed in a heat-containment area, reducing the need for ambient air cooling in the data center.
The combination of the liquid cooling technology, the heat containment arrangement, and the Power Utilization Efficiency (PUE) of the data center makes Greene an efficient and environmentally-friendly cluster - in short, Greene is green. The Greene cluster, as all other new NYU HPC clusters, is located in a new space (5,000 sq ft) in a data center colocation facility.