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Aurora

Aurora consists out of 180 compute nodes for SNIC use and over 50 compute nodes funded by research groups at Lund University.

Each node has two Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors (Haswell), offering 20 compute cores per node.  The nodes have 64 GB of DDR4 ram installed.

System information

  • Hostname: aurora.lunarc.lu.se
  • Queueing system: SLURM
  • Home space:
    • /home
    • NFS mounted, available on all nodes
  • Optional project storage 
    • /lunarc/nobackup/projects
    • 2 PB IBM SpectrumScale Filesystem
  • Linux distribution: CentOS 7.2 x86_64 (RHEL7 compatible)
  • Software: organised in a hierachical module system

Node Information

  • CPU: 2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 (2.3 Ghz, 10-core)
  • Memory: 64 GB (3.2 GB/core)
  • Local disk: 1.7 TB, temporary directory given by $SNIC_TMP or $TMPDIR
  • Interconnect: 4xFDR InfiniBand
A photo of Aurora.
Last updated: 14 Oct 2025 | jonas [dot] lindemann [at] lunarc [dot] lu [dot] se