Fotonano Cluster (LSF 10)


The Fotonano cluster is owned by the departments of Photonics. Access to the cluster is thus accordingly decided within both these sections.
The cluster consists of 25 nodes in total. They are currently divided into these different categories:

2 nodes each equipped with:

  • 2 Sockets – 2 x 64 cores –  AMD EPYC-9554 (AMD Genoa, 64 cores, 3.1 GHz base frequency)
  • ThinkSystem SR665 V3
  • 1 node with 1536 GB RAM (24 x 64GB DDR5-4800)/li>
  • 1 node with 768 GB RAM ( 24 x 32GB DDR5-4800)/li>
  • 960 GB NVME for OS and applications and temporary files
  • HDR-Infiniband

1 node equipped with:

  • 2 Sockets – 2 x 32 cores –  AMD EPYC-9354 (AMD Genoa, 32 cores, 3.25 GHz base frequency)
  • ThinkSystem SR665 V3
  • 2304 GB RAM (24 x 96GB DDR5-4800)
  • 960 GB NVME for OS and applications and temporary files
  • HDR-Infiniband

1 node equipped with:

  • 2 Sockets – 2 x 16 cores –  Xeon Gold 6326 2.9GHz (Icelake)
  • Lenovo ThinkSystem SD630 V2
  • 512 GB RAM
  • 480 GB SATA SSD for OS and applications and temporary files
  • 2 x Nvidia A100 (80GB)
  • HDR-Infiniband

3 nodes each equipped with:

  • 2 Sockets – 2 x 24 cores –  Xeon Gold 6342 2.8GHz (Icelake)
  • Lenovo ThinkSystem SD630 V2
  • 1024 GB RAM
  • 480 GB SATA SSD for OS and applications and temporary files
  • HDR-Infiniband

10 nodes each equipped with:

  • 2 Sockets – 2 x 16 cores –  Xeon Gold 6226R 2.9GHz
  • Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530
  • 4 nodes with 384 GB RAM
  • 6 nodes with 768 GB RAM
  • 480 GB SATA SSD for OS and applications and temporary files
  • FDR-Infiniband

2 nodes each equipped with:

  • 2 Sockets – 12 Core Intel Scalable Gold 6126  2.6GHz
  • Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530
  • 384 GB RAM
  • 480 GB SATA SSD for OS and applications and temporary files
  • FDR-Infiniband


6 nodes each equipped with:

  • 2 Sockets – 10 Core Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 2.6GHz
  • Dell PowerEdge FC430
  • 128GB RAM
  • 400GB SATA SSD for OS and applications and temporary files
  • FDR-Infiniband


All nodes are installed with AlmaLinux 9.5