Example specifications and pricing as of February 2021
Pricing for prioritized compute (“CPU”)
Cluster compute nodes are purchased by Wynton in units which contain 4 Compute Nodes in a single chassis. Partial nodes can be purchased and contributions will be pooled towards a full system.
- CPU/node: 2 × Intel Xeon Gold 6240 2.6 GHz 18-core processors
- RAM/node: 384 GiB
Price per 4 compute node unit: 23,645 USD (for 4 nodes in a 2U chassis)
Pricing for Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Wynton HPC has 42 GPU nodes with a total of 148 GPUs available to all users. Among these, 31 GPU nodes, with a total of 100 GPUs, were contributed by different research groups. GPU jobs are limited to 2 hours in length when run on GPUs not contributed by the running user's lab. In contrast,
contributors are not limited to 2-hour GPU jobs on nodes they contributed. There is also one GPU development node that is available to all users.
- CPU: 1 × AMD EPYC 7502P 2.5 GHz 32-core processor
- GPU: 4 × Nvidia RTX 3090
- RAM: 512 GiB/node
Price per GPU node: 17,837 USD
How to purchase
To purchase compute nodes or GPUs, please contact compute@wynton.ucsf.edu to discuss the specifics (requirements, pricing, availability and current lead times).
Single GPU cards cannot be purchased, only a full GPU node. However, just like partial compute nodes can be purchased, GPU purchase requests can also be pooled towards a full system.