Idun – High Performance Computing Group

Idun Research Infrastructure days 2023

The Idun cluster is a project between NTNU's faculties and the IT division that aims at providing a high-availability and professionally administrated compute platform for NTNU. It is an effort to combine the compute resources of individual shareholders to create a cluster for rapid testing and prototyping of HPC software. While the IT division provides the backbone of the cluster, such as switches for high-speed interconnection, storage, and provisioning servers, the individual faculties/departments provide the compute resources. Any faculty or department can become a shareholder in the cluster by financing compute capacity, leveraging their share of compute time as well as the compute time of other idling resources. Accounting guarantees each partner's share of compute time and ensures fairness between the users on the system. Currently, the following faculties/departments are shareholders in Idun:

Faculty	Shareholder	#Cores	#GPUs
Faculty of Engineering	Department of Energy and Process Engineering	176
Faculty of Engineering	Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	140
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering	Department of Computer Science	864	80
	Department of Computer Science - Open AI Lab	140	10
	Department of Mathematical Sciences	76	2
Faculty of Natural Sciences		40
	Department of Physics	120
	Department of Physics - TEM Gemini Centre	28	2
	Department of Chemistry	60
	Department of Chemical Engineering	28
	Department of Material Science and Engineering	40
Faculty of Medicine and Health Science	Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience	56
Faculty of Medicine and Health Science	Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine	10
IT Division	High-Performance Computing Group	158
Total		1936	92

Please contact help@hpc.ntnu.no if you have further questions regarding the system, or want to become a shareholder in Idun.