HPC Hardware Lab @Durham

The HPC Hardware Lab @Durham provides Durham and UK researchers with access to cutting edge technologies and facilities. It is hosted within, yet independent of 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

• Tenstorrent RISC-V system

• 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.

Further information

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.

External hardware laboratory facilities

There are a number of other hardware lab facilities around the UK. A good starting point to search for available facilities is the collection maintained by the SHAREing project.