Marvin: State of the Art Tier 3 Cluster

Marvin, a large tier 3 HPC cluster, was purchased by the University of Bonn in October 2022. It was delivered in the summer of 2023 and became available for use in March 2024. Currently, Marvin ranks at 423 on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

Our planned steps towards full operability are as follows:

Starting from October 11th 2023: Closed testing phases for exclusively experienced users.
October 20th: Inauguration ceremony and celebration including talks by official guests from science and politics, symposium.
March 11, 2024: Opening to users of the University of Bonn and valued cooperating partners.

Marvin is now accessible to all (HPC-experienced) scientists at the University, including the University Hospital Bonn (Universitätsklinikum, UKB) and their external project partners.

To register for access, please scroll down to Access. The application procedure is similar the one for Bonna.

For further information on technical details and photos of the building infrastructure, assembly of Marvin, and the final state of the cluster, please check the sections below.

Technical Details

192 MPP Nodes (IntelSR Partition)

CPU: 2 × Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" 48-core/96-thread 2.10GHz
RAM: 1024GB DDR5 4800MHz
Local Storage: 1 × 1.92TB SSD U.3 NVMe

Total Amount of Cores: 18,432
Total RAM: 196.6TB

24 Large Memory Nodes (LM Partiton)

CPU: 2 × Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" 48-core/96-thread 2.10GHz
RAM: 2048GB DDR5 4800 MHz
Local Storage: 1 × 1.92TB SSD U.3 NVMe

Total Amount of Cores: 2,304
Total RAM: 49.2TB

5 Very Large Memory Nodes (VLM Partition)

CPU: 2 × Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" 48-core/96-thread 2.10GHz
RAM: 4096GB DDR5 4800MHz
Local Storage: 1 × 3.84TB SSD U.3 NVMe

Total Amount of Cores: 480
Total RAM: 20.5TB

32 A100 GPU Nodes for Highly Scalable GPU Applications (SGPU Partition)

CPU: 2 × AMD EPYC "Milan" 64-core/128-thread 2.00GHz
RAM: 1024GB DDR4 3200MHz
GPU: 4 × Nvidia A100 80GB (connected via NVLink within the node)

Total Amount of Cores: 4,096
Total RAM: 32.8TB

24 A40 GPU Nodes for Machine Learning (MLGPU Partition)

CPU: 2 × AMD EPYC "Milan" 64-core/128-thread 2.00GHz
RAM: 512GB DDR4 3200MHz
GPU: 8 × Nvidia A40 48GB

Total Amount of Cores: 3,072
Total RAM: 12.3TB

Storage

FS Type: Lustre
5.6PB for User Data

Network

Mellanox Inifiniband NDR 200GB/s

Access

Use the following form to:

Register for HPC use
Prolong your access for another 6 months (students) or 12 months (employees).
Extend your Marvin acount, i.e. add another group share to it. What are group shares?

You do not need to specify which you want to do, the form is identical in all cases.

When applying, you will be asked to agree to abiding by the interim regulations for using our HPC systems as well as the HRZ regulations (both links in German). Registration is not possible without agreeing to them.