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USGS Yeti Supercomputer

By Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

Decommissioned in 2023, Yeti was the first supercomputer available to all USGS research staff.  

Close up of Yeti Supercomputer doors
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(Credit: Jeff Falgout, USGS. Public domain.)

Yeti Specifications

  • 39,166 Total Cores
    • 3,728 CPU Cores (1,456 Intel Ivy Bridge cores and 2,272 Intel Haswell cores)
    • 366 Xeon Phi 7120P cores
    • 35,072 CUDA cores (5,120 Quadro K2200 GPU cores and 29,952 Tesla K80 GPU cores)
  • 32,128 GB Total RAM
  • ~105 TFlop/s total combined performance 
    • For context, back in June 2019, #500 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world benchmarked at 1,021 Tflop/s on 27,360 cores.
  • 793 TB Usable Disk Storage
    • 508 TB Lustre storage. 12-14 GB/s throughput.
    • 285 TB CXFS storage. 6.7 GB/s CXFS throughput.
  • Node interconnect is FDR/QDR Infiniband (40-56Gb/s) configured in a 2:1 blocking fat tree topology.

Suggested Citation: 

Falgout, Jeff T, Janice Gordon, USGS Advanced Research Computing, USGS Yeti Supercomputer: U.S. Geological Survey, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7D798MJ