The High Performance Cluster is Getting More Performant

Monday 06/30/2025

In June, RCC staff deployed 20 new compute nodes in the high-performance cluster (HPC) with two GPU cards each. The nodes increase the GPU capabilities of the cluster by 25,360 TFlops and have the following specs: 

  • AMD EPYC 9135 16-core, 3.65GHz CPU x1 
  • 288 GB RAM (18 GB per core) 
  • 1 TB NVME solid state storage 
  • NVIDIA Connect-X 6 HDR 200Gbps IB network card 
  • 2x NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada GPUs w/24GB RAM (specs)  

These new GPU nodes will power data science and AI research at FSU. The HPC is still working on the final charge-back rates, but we will provide a substantial subsidy for research groups who lease these and future GPU nodes. Direct inquires to support@rcc.fsu.edu. 

If you are looking to learn how to use GPUs on the HPC, check out our user guide.