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SUNBIRD2 Documentation

SUNBIRD2 is a high-performance computing facility serving Swansea and Aberystwyth Universities as part of the Supercomputing Wales programme.

SUNBIRD2 comprises the following partitions:

  • 46 standard-memory compute nodes, each with 128 CPU cores and 768GiB RAM
  • 5 high-memory compute nodes, each with 128 CPU cores and 1.5TiB RAM
  • 6 AccelerateAI nodes, each with 8 NVIDIA A100-40GB GPUs
    • One of these nodes is dedicated to interactive usage, with Multi-Instance GPU for rapid availability
  • 1 AccelerateAI-H100 node, with 4 NVIDIA H100 GPUs
  • 2 AccelerateAI-GH nodes, each with one NVIDIA Grace Hopper superchip
  • Researcher-funded partitions migrated from SUNBIRD

For more information about accessing and using SUNBIRD2, please see the links to the left.