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Newcastle University will contribute to this project by enabling access to a percentage of resources available within the Comet High Performance Computing facility.

Approximately 20% of the resources of Comet are free at the point of use for users, and this project will be able to access resources from that pool. This includes the following resource types:

• 10 compute nodes (totalling 2560 cores + 11.5TB RAM + 8 Nvidia L40S GPU cards)

Plus a shared, 2.2PB parallel file store for working data sets.

All users of the Comet HPC facility are able to draw on HPC support, training and workshops provided by the Newcastle University Research Software Engineering team.

Once these resources are used, or if additional compute resources are required, the funding from the project/grant will be used to provide priority access to the Comet High Performance Computing facility.

Project funds will then enable access the entire available compute capacity of the HPC. This includes the following resource types:

• 36 Standard nodes for general purpose compute (9216 cores + 39.6TB RAM)
• 10 Large memory compute nodes for large data sets (2560 cores + 15TB RAM)
• 4 Low-latency compute nodes for parallel compute (1024 cores + 4.4TB RAM)
• 4 GPU nodes with Nvidia L40S cards (1024 cores + 3TB RAM)
• 1 GPU node with Nvidia H100 cards (256 cores + 768GB RAM)

Plus a shared, parallel file store for working data sets.

This represents a total of:

• 14,080 CPU cores
• 36 Nvidia GPU cards
• 2.2 PB of of storage

All users of the Comet HPC facility are able to draw on HPC support, training and workshops provided by the Newcastle University Research Software Engineering team.

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