JADE@ARC Facility User guide

A picture showing some of the Jade hardware.

This is the documentation for the Joint Academic Data science Endeavour (JADE) facility.

JADE@ARC is a UK Tier-2 technology pilot resource, funded by EPSRC, owned and hosted by the University of Oxford. The hardware was supplied and integrated by Lenovo. This forms part of a much larger investment by EPSRC in the UK’s regional Tier 2 high-performance computing facilities, which aim to bridge the gap between institutional and national resources.

JADE@ARC Hardware

JADE@ARC hardware consists of:

  • 3 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR685a V3 Nodes, each with

    • 2 AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core CPUs and

    • 8 AMD MI300X GPUs

  • 2 Login nodes

  • Mellanox NDR networking

  • 32TB of local SSD scratch storage per node