Brutus cluster


Brutus is the central high-performance cluster of ETH Zurich. It was introduced to the public in May 2008. A new computing cluster called EULER has been announced and opened to the public in May 2014.

Processors

Brutus is a heterogeneous system containing 11 different kinds of compute nodes:
;Standard nodes
;Large-memory nodes
;GPU nodes
;Legacy nodes
In total Brutus contains 19,872 cores, plus a few hundreds in the cluster's file servers, login nodes and management nodes.
The peak performance of Brutus is slightly over 200 teraflops.

Networking

Thanks to its heterogeneous nature, Brutus can tackle a wide range of applications: