System Overview

The Aire HPC system has been designed with a scalable architecture capable of supporting a wide variety of research applications. As of February 2025, the system consists of 52 standard compute nodes and 2 high-memory compute nodes, each equipped with 168 cores, providing a total of 9,072 cores. It also includes 28 GPU nodes, each containing three NVIDIA L40S GPUs, offering a total of 84 GPUs. Aire provides a generous amount of local storage to support the demands of large-scale HPC workloads.

Note

Before diving into the Aire HPC system, it’s important to have a basic understanding of its architecture and capabilities. This will help you make the most of the resources available and ensure efficient use of the system.

Explore the sections below to learn more about Aire:

• HPC architecture
• Compute node types
• Storage and Filesystems
• Job Scheduler
• Modules and Applications
• Linux User Environment