HPC Centre
Taltech High Performance Computing Centre (HPC Centre) develops and manages the compute resources for scientific use. We manage two compute clusters and Cloud infrastructure.
Uni-ID is used for user authentication. In order to get access to our resources, your Uni-ID has to be added to HPC users group. Please send the request to hpcsupport@taltech.ee or create a ticket in Helpdesk Portal.
Resources
HPC2 cluster base.hpc.taltech.ee
Our newest compute cluster with 32 nodes, installed in 2019. Computer jobs are handled through SLURM cluster manager.
Each node has
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6148 2.40 GHz (40 cores, 80 threads per node)
- 96GB RAM
- 25 Gb/s Ethernet
- 800GB local scratch space in /state/partition1/
hpc2node1-hpc2node18 are connected to FDR InfiniBand interconnect.
There is 20TB of shared storage in /ceph/home
GPU server amp.hpc.taltech.ee
- 2 x AMD EPYC 7742 (128 core, 256 threads per server)
- 8 x Nvidia A100 GPU
- 1TB mälu
- 100Gb/s Ethernet
HPC1 cluster hpc.ttu.ee
Installed in 2013, originally with 232 nodes, about 100 remaining. Computer jobs are handled through SLURM cluster manager.
Each node has
- 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630L
- 48GB RAM
- 1 Gb/s Ethernet
- 800GB local scratch space in /state/partition1
There is 146TB of shared storage mounted to /home.
48 nodes are connected to QDR Infiniband interconnect
There is a large memory node with 1TB of RAM accessible through SLURM in mem1tb partition.
In addition, there is a GPU server with 2 Nvidia Tesla K20Xm GPUs. Usable also as a Visualization node (on displays :0.0 and :0.1)
OpenStack Cloud
Accessible thorough ETAIS self-service website https://minu.etais.ee/
4 compute (nova) nodes
65 TB CephFS storage (net capacity)
User guide: https://etais.ee/using
Price List
TalTech HPC cluster
| Resource | Unit | Standard price | EU project price |
| CPUcore & < 6 GB RAM | CPUcore*hour | 0.008 EUR | 0.007 EUR |
| CPUcore & > 6 GB RAM | 6 GB RAM*hour | 0.008 EUR | 0.007 EUR |
| GPU | GPU*hour | 0.62 EUR | 0.54 EUR |
| Storage | 1 TB*hour | 0.007 EUR | 0.006 EUR |
LUMI supercomputer
| Resource | Unit | Standard price | EU project price |
| CPUcore | CPUcore*hour | 0.008 EUR | 0.007 EUR |
| GPU | GPU*hour | 0.35 EUR | 0.28 EUR |
| User home directory | 20 GB | free | free |
| Project storage (persistent and scratch) | TB*hour | 0.0106 EUR | 0.008 EUR |
| Flash based scratch storage | TB*hour | 10 x 0.0106 EUR | 10 x 0.008 EUR |
Virtual server hosting
| Resource | Unit | Standard price | EU project price |
| CPU | CPU*hour | 0.002 EUR | 0.002 EUR |
| Memory | RAM*hour | 0.001 EUR | 0.001 EUR |
| Storage | TB*hour | 0.03 EUR | 0.025 EUR |
Administrator service
| Resource | Unit | Standard price | EU project price |
| Administrator service | hour | 56 EUR | 49 EUR |
For parties outside TalTech, 24% VAT is added to the prices.
The price list also applies to students. Invoices related to students are paid by the faculty where the student studies or by the institute that supervises the respective course, student project, or thesis.