Harpers Ferry (2025-)¶
Harpers Ferry is WVU’s latest HPC Cluster. It was deployed in October 2025 and was funded in part through a NASA Congressionally Directed Spending.
The cluster has a total of 37 compute nodes, one login node all managed from one master node.
Overview¶
Harpers Ferry is a cluster with 37 compute nodes.
Hardware¶
HPC has 37 compute nodes. There are two nodes with 3TB of RAM. All other 35 compute nodes have 768 GB.
Names of
Nodes
|
Number of
Nodes
|
CPU cores
per node
|
RAM per
Node
|
Sockets CPU Manufacturer
and Processor Model
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
hcocs[001-035] |
35 |
256 |
768 GB |
2X AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core |
hcocx[001-002] |
2 |
256 |
3072 GB |
2X AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core |
Specifications of AMD EPYC 9754¶
Harpers Ferry compute nodes were build with dual socket 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors. The following is a quick summary of some relevant features of these processors. For more information visit the official website at AMD 9754
Name |
AMD EPYC™ 9754 |
Family and Series |
EPYC 9004 Series |
# of CPU Cores |
128 |
# of Threads |
256 |
Max. Boost Clock |
Up to 3.1 GHz |
All Core Boost Speed |
3.1 GHz |
Base Clock |
2.25 GHz |
L3 Cache |
256 MB |
Default TDP |
360 W |
AMD Configurable TDP (cTDP) |
320-400 W |
CPU Socket |
SP5 |
Socket Count |
1P / 2P |
Launch Date |
06/13/2023 |
Software¶
Workload Manager¶
Harpers Ferry uses Slurm as workload manager. There are five paritions defined and there is a default memory per CPU defined for each partition. The default partition is defq and allows jobs for up to 6 hours. See table below for more information about the parititions defined.
Partition |
Time Limit |
Number of
Nodes
|
Nodes in
Partition
|
Default Memory
per CPU
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
defq* |
6 hours |
35 |
hcocs[001-035] |
3 GB |
day_3gb |
1 day |
35 |
hcocs[001-035] |
3 GB |
day_12gb |
1 day |
2 |
hcocx[001-002] |
12 GB |
week_3gb |
1 week |
35 |
hcocs[001-035] |
3 GB |
week_12gb |
1 week |
2 |
hcocx[001-002] |
12 GB |
Scientific Software¶
Harpers Ferry has a variety of compilers, numerical libraries, and scientific software specifically compiled and optimized for the hardware architecture.
GNU Compiler
Collection
|
GNU Compiler
Collection
|
NVIDIA
HPCSDK
|
Intel
oneAPI
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Env. Module |
Host compiler |
gcc/13.1.0 |
nvhpc/26.1 |
compiler/2025.3.2 |
Version |
11.5.0 |
13.1.0 |
26.1-0 |
2025.3.2 |
C Compiler |
gcc |
gcc |
nvc |
icx |
C++ Compiler |
g++ |
g++ |
nvc++ |
icpx |
Fortran |
gfortran |
gfortran |
nvfortran |
ifx |
Acknowledgment Message¶
We ask our users to acknowledge the use of Harpers Ferry in all publications that were possible thanks to this resource. The message in the acknowledgment section could be as follows:
Computational resources were provided by the WVU Research Computing Harpers Ferry HPC cluster, which is funded in part through a NASA Congressionally Directed Spending