HPC wire vom 2021-02-01
Visualization and FS Use Cases Show Value of Large Memory Fat Nodes on Frontera

Frontera, the world’s largest academic supercomputer housed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), is big both in terms of number of computational nodes and the capabilities of the large memory “fat” compute nodes. A couple of recent use cases - among them a 180-degree High Resolution Climate Simulations by DKRZ - demonstrate how academic researchers are using the quad-socket, 112-core, 2.1TB persistent memory to support Frontera’s large memory nodes.