Ready for the next level in computation? Hive2 is finally here! It was a long and difficult process with many obstacles and delays, in which Eyal was involved as the head of the Faculty’s HPC Committee. A lot of sweat, blood and tears went into this… But when we see now what we got from all that – it was worth it! And it well deserved a bottle of champagne…

Hive2 is a much improved system compared to Hive1, with all the newest state-of-the-art technology:

• The compute nodes (bees) have more than 5000 CPU cores
• The high-memorty compute nodes (queens) have up to 1.5TB RAM
• Hive2 has a high-performance, distributed, hybrid file system with a total volume of 1PB (1000TB). It’s hybrid in the sense that it consists both regular rotating disks (HDD) and flash disks (SSD), which have much higher performance.
• All components are connected by a fast Infiniband network (100MB/s). This allows for parallel computation (using MPI)
• A new backup server in a separate building is connected to Hive2 by optical cable, allowing for regular automatic backups (with snapshots) of chosen files/directories (you can’t backup the whole 1PB!)