Cimarron Supercomputer
November 9, 2026: OSU's newest supercomputer "Cimarron" is available for all OSU and OAK region researchers.
Cimarron's computational infrastructure comprises 37,760 processor cores, 210,560 GB RAM, and more than 10 Petabytes of storage.
System summary:
- 150 compute nodes, each with dual 96-core AMD EPYC "Genoa" 9654 CPUs @ 2.4GHz and a base of 768 GB RAM
- 80 nodes contain 3x NVIDIA L40S GPUs with 48 GB VRAM
- 16 nodes contain 2x NVIDIA H100 GPUs with 80 GB VRAM and an additional 768 GB system RAM
- 80 nodes contain 3x NVIDIA L40S GPUs with 48 GB VRAM
- 100 compute nodes, each with dual AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 series CPUs and 512 GB RAM
- 60 nodes contain model 7742 CPUs @ 2.25GHz
- 40 nodes contain model 7302 CPUs @ 3.0GHz and 3x NVIDIA QUADRO RTX6000 GPUs with 24 GB VRAM
- 60 nodes contain model 7742 CPUs @ 2.25GHz
- 392 total GPUs
- 32 NVIDIA H100
- 240 NVIDIA L40S
- 120 NVIDIA QUADRO RTX6000
- 32 NVIDIA H100
- 200 Gb/s InfiniBand low-latency interconnect
- 10+ PB high-speed parallel file system (for paid use)
- 480 TB high-speed parallel file system (/scratch)
- Slurm Workload Manager
Codes Compiled on Cimarron
All fields of study at OSU and across the OAK region, from physical sciences and engineering, to mathematics and business, utilize Cimarron to discover innovative solutions for modern world questions. To aid researchers in this quest, HPCC staff, with the help of Cimarron users, have installed an extensive library of codes and software. A selection of these can be seen below.
Compilers:
aocc, gcc, cuda, nvidia (pgi), llvm, go, intel, openmpi, mpich, mvapich
Development tools:
cmake, ninja, easybuild
Languages and runtimes:
R, python, perl, julia, ruby, nodejs, java
Scientific libraries and databases:
armadillo, bakta-db, eigen, fftw, gdal, geos, gsl, gtdb, hdf5, lapack, libtorch, libxc, mkl, netcdf, nlopt, openblas, proj, scalapack, slate, superlu
Codes A-L:
amber, ants, apptainer, bakta, bedtools, blast+, bowtie2, busco, bwa, cd-hit, cern_root, clustal-omega, connectome_workbench, cutadapt, diamond, edirect, evo2, fastani, fasteddy, fastp, fastplong, fastqc, freesurfer, gatk, gaussian, gnuplot, grace, gromacs, gtdbtk, gurobi, hisat2, hmmer, htseq, iqtree, jags, jellyfish, kentutils, lammps
Codes M-Z:
magicblast, matlab, metis, miniforge, minimap2, mothur, mrtrix3, mumax+, mumax, orca, parmetis, prodigal, quantum-espresso, raxml-ng, raxml, rsem, samtools, seisunix, siesta, spades, sratoolkit, stacks, star-ccm, star-rna, stringtie, structure, subread, texlive, transdecoder, trimgalore, trimmomatic, trinity
OSU's supercomputers and support team enable computational and data intensive research for hundreds of researchers throughout many of Oklahoma's academic institutions and several national institutions.
The system was funded by MRI Award #2216084, Acquisition of a High-Performance Computational System for OAK Region to Enable Computing and Data Driven Discovery.