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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Noctua 2 is a supercomputer operated at the Paderborn Center for Parallel
    Computing (PC2) at Paderborn University in Germany. Noctua 2 was inaugurated in
    2022 and is an Atos BullSequana XH2000 system. It consists mainly of three node
    types: 1) CPU Compute nodes with AMD EPYC processors in different main memory
    configurations, 2) GPU nodes with NVIDIA A100 GPUs, and 3) FPGA nodes with Xilinx
    Alveo U280 and Intel Stratix 10 FPGA cards. While CPUs and GPUs are known off-the-shelf
    components in HPC systems, the operation of a large number of FPGA cards from
    different vendors and a dedicated FPGA-to-FPGA network are unique characteristics
    of Noctua 2. This paper describes in detail the overall setup of Noctua 2 and
    gives insights into the operation of the cluster from a hardware, software and
    facility perspective.'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Carsten
  full_name: Bauer, Carsten
  id: '90082'
  last_name: Bauer
- first_name: Tobias
  full_name: Kenter, Tobias
  id: '3145'
  last_name: Kenter
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Lass, Michael
  id: '24135'
  last_name: Lass
  orcid: 0000-0002-5708-7632
- first_name: Lukas
  full_name: Mazur, Lukas
  id: '90492'
  last_name: Mazur
  orcid: ' 0000-0001-6304-7082'
- first_name: Marius
  full_name: Meyer, Marius
  id: '40778'
  last_name: Meyer
- first_name: Holger
  full_name: Nitsche, Holger
  id: '15272'
  last_name: Nitsche
- first_name: Heinrich
  full_name: Riebler, Heinrich
  id: '8961'
  last_name: Riebler
- first_name: Robert
  full_name: Schade, Robert
  id: '75963'
  last_name: Schade
  orcid: 0000-0002-6268-5397
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Schwarz, Michael
  id: '5312'
  last_name: Schwarz
- first_name: Nils
  full_name: Winnwa, Nils
  id: '61189'
  last_name: Winnwa
- first_name: Alex
  full_name: Wiens, Alex
  id: '23522'
  last_name: Wiens
  orcid: 0000-0003-1764-9773
- first_name: Xin
  full_name: Wu, Xin
  id: '77439'
  last_name: Wu
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Plessl, Christian
  id: '16153'
  last_name: Plessl
  orcid: 0000-0001-5728-9982
- first_name: Jens
  full_name: Simon, Jens
  id: '15273'
  last_name: Simon
citation:
  ama: Bauer C, Kenter T, Lass M, et al. Noctua 2 Supercomputer. <i>Journal of large-scale
    research facilities</i>. 2024;9. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187
    ">10.17815/jlsrf-8-187 </a>
  apa: Bauer, C., Kenter, T., Lass, M., Mazur, L., Meyer, M., Nitsche, H., Riebler,
    H., Schade, R., Schwarz, M., Winnwa, N., Wiens, A., Wu, X., Plessl, C., &#38;
    Simon, J. (2024). Noctua 2 Supercomputer. <i>Journal of Large-Scale Research Facilities</i>,
    <i>9</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187 ">https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187
    </a>
  bibtex: '@article{Bauer_Kenter_Lass_Mazur_Meyer_Nitsche_Riebler_Schade_Schwarz_Winnwa_et
    al._2024, title={Noctua 2 Supercomputer}, volume={9}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187
    ">10.17815/jlsrf-8-187 </a>}, journal={Journal of large-scale research facilities},
    author={Bauer, Carsten and Kenter, Tobias and Lass, Michael and Mazur, Lukas and
    Meyer, Marius and Nitsche, Holger and Riebler, Heinrich and Schade, Robert and
    Schwarz, Michael and Winnwa, Nils and et al.}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Bauer, Carsten, Tobias Kenter, Michael Lass, Lukas Mazur, Marius Meyer,
    Holger Nitsche, Heinrich Riebler, et al. “Noctua 2 Supercomputer.” <i>Journal
    of Large-Scale Research Facilities</i> 9 (2024). <a href="https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187
    ">https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187 </a>.
  ieee: 'C. Bauer <i>et al.</i>, “Noctua 2 Supercomputer,” <i>Journal of large-scale
    research facilities</i>, vol. 9, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187
    ">10.17815/jlsrf-8-187 </a>.'
  mla: Bauer, Carsten, et al. “Noctua 2 Supercomputer.” <i>Journal of Large-Scale
    Research Facilities</i>, vol. 9, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-8-187
    ">10.17815/jlsrf-8-187 </a>.
  short: C. Bauer, T. Kenter, M. Lass, L. Mazur, M. Meyer, H. Nitsche, H. Riebler,
    R. Schade, M. Schwarz, N. Winnwa, A. Wiens, X. Wu, C. Plessl, J. Simon, Journal
    of Large-Scale Research Facilities 9 (2024).
date_created: 2024-04-26T07:39:41Z
date_updated: 2024-04-26T08:44:30Z
ddc:
- '004'
department:
- _id: '27'
- _id: '518'
doi: '10.17815/jlsrf-8-187 '
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keyword:
- Noctua 2
- Supercomputer
- FPGA
- PC2
- Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing
language:
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oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '52'
  name: 'PC2: Computing Resources Provided by the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing'
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