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Introduction
About Merlin6 GPU cluster
Introduction
Merlin6 was a the official PSI Local HPC cluster for development and mission-critical applications that has been built in 2019. It replaced the Merlin5 cluster.
Merlin6 was designed to be extensible, so was technically possible to add more compute nodes and cluster storage without significant increase of the costs of the manpower and the operations.
Merlin6 was mostly based on CPU resources, but also contained a small amount of GPU-based resources which are mostly used by the BIO experiments.
Slurm 'gmerlin6'
THe GPU nodes have a dedicated Slurm cluster, called gmerlin6.
This cluster contains the same shared storage resources (/data/user, /data/project, /shared-scracth, /afs, /psi/home)
which are present in the Merlin6 Slurm CPU cluster. The Slurm gmerlin6 cluster is maintainted
independently to ease access for the users and keep independent user accounting.
Merlin6 Architecture
Merlin6 Cluster Architecture Diagram
The following image shows the Merlin6 cluster architecture diagram:
Merlin6 Slurm Cluster Architecture Design
The following image shows the Slurm architecture design for the Merlin6 clusters:
