Geddes
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Geddes is a Community Composable Platform optimized for composable, cloud-like workflows that are complementary to the batch applications run on Community Clusters. Funded by the National Science Foundation under grant OAC-2018926, Geddes consists of Dell Compute nodes with two 64-core AMD Epyc 'Rome' processors (128 cores per node).
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Geddes is named in honor of Lanelle Geddes, Professor of Nursing. More information about her life and impact on Purdue is available in a Biography of Geddes.
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All Geddes compute nodes have 128 processor cores and 100 Gbps Infiniband interconnects.
Worker Type | Number of Nodes | Processors per Node | Cores per Node | Storage per Node | Memory per Node | Retires in |
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A | 8 | Two AMD Epyc CPUs @ 2.0GHz | 128 | 24 TB SATA SSD | 1 TB | 2026 |
B | 16 | Two AMD Epyc CPUs @ 2.0GHz | 128 | 24 TB SATA SSD | 512 GB | 2026 |
Number of Nodes | Processors per Node | Cores per Node | GPUs per Node | Storage per Node | Memory per Node | Retires in |
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4 | Two AMD Epyc CPUs @ 2.0GHz | 128 | 2 Nvidia A100 | 24 TB SATA SSD | 512 GB | 2026 |
Number of Nodes | Processors per Node | Cores per Node | Storage per Node | Memory per Node | Retires in |
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8 | Two Intel Xeon Gold 6126 | 24 | 24 TB NVMe | 192 GB | 2026 |
Geddes nodes run Rocky 8 and use Rancher and Kubernetes as the resource manager for resource and workload orchestration.