The HPC Hardware Lab @Durham provides Durham and UK researchers with access to cutting edge technologies and facilities. It is hosted by the COSMA HPC facility and receives funding from Durham University, industry partners, UKRI (e.g. through ExCALIBUR) and DiRAC.
These include:
DINE: A test cluster with BlueField-2 DPUs
DINE2: A test cluster with a composable fabric and NVIDIA Ampere GPUs
GPU compute
NVIDIA A100, A30, H100
NVIDIA Grace Hopper
AMD MI100, MI210, MI300X
Intel Ponte Vecchio
Composable infrastructure
Rockport 6D Torus fabric
Storage laboratory
Solar panel installation
Immersion cooling
Underground heat storage
Information about how to access the HPC Hardward Lab and associated testbed installations is described on a dedicated access page.
We appreciate the help of colleagues to keep these pages up-to-date and consistent, and to add any missing information. Please follow the process described on the contribution pages.
A lot of information about the Durham HPC Hardware Lab is hosted by the COSMA HPC documentation.
A list of historical hardware (now retired) is maintained.
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