Pilot setup

Client system architectures

• CPU-only
  • ivybridge (SURF, VUB)
  • haswell (UGent, SURF)
  • skylake_avx512 (Xeon Gold; SURF, UGent)
  • rome (JSC, soon UGent)
• CPU + GPU
  • ivybridge-kepler (SURF, VUB)
  • cascadelake-volta (UGent)
  • ivybridge-nvidia
    • fat GPU builds that can be tested on various GPU systems (anything newer than ivybridge)

Client OS

• focus on Linux only for now (no macOS/WSL)

Scientific software

OpenFOAM

• CPU
• use tutorial inputs included in installation?
• inputs are different across different OpenFOAM versions!
• contact Mark Olesen (via Kenneth)?
• compare performance with official pre-compiled binaries
  • https://develop.openfoam.com/Development/openfoam/-/wikis/precompiled

TensorFlow

• CPU/GPU
• can use PRACE benchmark inputs?
  • https://repository.prace-ri.eu/git/UEABS/ueabs#tensorflow

GROMACS

• CPU/GPU
• can use input sets that Victor Holanda (CSCS, @victorusu) has put together
• or:
  • https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/grubmueller/bench
  • ftp://ftp.gromacs.org/pub/benchmarks (from 2015)
  • https://www.nvidia.com/en-sg/data-center/gpu-accelerated-applications/gromacs/ (GROMACS 5.1)

Bioinformatics pipeline

• something COVID-19 related?