Cluster description
GAIA is our high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, designed to handle demanding research workloads and large-scale data processing. You can access GAIA through the login nodes Helios or Selene, depending on your needs.
GAIA provides multiple login nodes for diagnostics and research, a range of compute nodes optimized for CPU, GPU, or big-memory jobs, and a flexible storage setup with fast NVMe SSDs and large-capacity HDD storage.
Below is an overview of GAIA’s key components.
Login nodes
- 2x head node
- 4x login node
- 1x diagnostics
- 3x research
Compute nodes
- 9x CPU worker nodes
- 2304 cores
- 7 TB RAM
- 1x Big memory node
- 256 cores
- 2,5 TB RAM
- 3x GPU worker nodes
- 320 cores
- 4 TB RAM
- 12x H100 NVL 94 GB
Storage nodes
- 1x T0 storage node (NVME SSD)
- 55 TB
- 4x T1 storage node (HDD)
- 1 PB