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Virtual machine flavors and billing unit rates

This article lists the types (flavors) of virtual machines and their cost in billing units.

The cPouta and ePouta services consume the same billing units as Puhti and Mahti. You can find more information in the CSC computing environment articles.

Users can create virtual machines with larger or smaller compute resources based on their needs. The virtual machine flavors available in cPouta and ePouta are listed below in separate tables. Please note that the values for the memory of each flavor (in GiB) are approximated.

About redundancy

In addition to the amount of cores, memory, and disk, the flavors we offer vary also on the level of redundancy of the nodes hosting the virtual machines. The details on the levels of redundancy follow.

Power redundancy

For the power provisioning of the node hosting the virtual machine, there are two possible values of redundancy.

  • Icon for power redundancy level NONE NONE - The node is not protected from sudden power losses. A fault in the power provisioning of the node might make the virtual machine temporarily unreachable.
  • Icon for power redundancy level FULL FULL - The node is protected from sudden power losses (UPS).

Data redundancy

Within each virtual machine, the customer data is stored in a root disk (R) and possibly in an ephemeral disk (E). For customer data, there are three possible values of redundancy.
We also offer the possibility to store the data in a persistent volume (FULL)

  • Icon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONE NONE - The disk is stored only in the node running the virtual machine and it is not backed up (RAID-0 or LVM striping). A fault in one of the disks of the node might corrupt the data of the virtual machine. Moreover, a fault in the node hosting the virtual machine might make the virtual machine not usable until the fault is fixed.
  • Icon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASIC BASIC - The disk is stored only in the node running the virtual machine and it is mirrored within the same node (RAID-1). A fault in a single disk of the node does not compromise the data of the virtual machine. Simultaneous faults in multiple disks of the node might corrupt the data of the virtual machine. Moreover, a fault in the node hosting the virtual machine might make the virtual machine not usable until the fault is fixed.
  • Icon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level FULL FULL - The disk is stored using multiple nodes in a fault-tolerant fashion (Ceph), so the customer data is not tied to any specific node. In case of a fault in a node used by the customer, it is possible to re-spawn the virtual machine of the customer using an alternative node.

Network redundancy

For the network reachability of the virtual machine, there are two possible values of redundancy.

  • Icon for network reachability redundancy level NONE NONE - The node hosting the virtual machine is connected to the cloud platform without a failover link. A fault in the link of the node might make the virtual machine temporarily unreachable.
  • Icon for network reachability redundancy level FULL FULL - The node hosting the virtual machine is connected to the cloud platform with an additional failover link.

cPouta flavors

The following tables list the available virtual machine flavors in cPouta and their billing unit coefficients. Note that the default cPouta user account allows users to launch only a subset of the available virtual machine flavors.

Standard flavors

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
standard.tiny 1 0.9 80 0 80 0.9 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 0.25
standard.small 2 1.9 80 0 80 0.9 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 0.5
standard.medium 3 3.9 80 0 80 1.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 1
standard.large 4 7.8 80 0 80 1.9 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 2
standard.xlarge 6 15 80 0 80 2.5 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 4
standard.xxlarge 8 31 80 0 80 3.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 8
standard.3xlarge 8 62 80 0 80 7.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 16

HPC flavors

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
hpc.5.16core 16 58 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 20
hpc.5.32core 32 116 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 40
hpc.5.64core 64 232 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 80
hpc.5.128core 128 464 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 160
hpc.4.5core 5 21 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 6
hpc.4.10core 10 42 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 12
hpc.4.20core 20 85 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 25
hpc.4.40core 40 171 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 50
hpc.4.80core 80 343 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 100
hpc-gen2.24core 24 117 80 0 80 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level NONE 30
hpc-gen2.48core 48 234 80 0 80 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level NONE 60

Note that the root disks of the hpc-gen2.24core and the hpc-gen2.48core flavors are hosted on hard disk drives (HDDs).

I/O flavors

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
io.70GB 2 9.7 20 70 90 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 3
io.160GB 4 19 20 160 180 4.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 6
io.340GB 8 39 20 340 360 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 12
io.700GB 16 78 20 700 720 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 24
io.2.80GB 2 12,7 80 80 160 6.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 6
io.2.240GB 4 26 80 240 320 6.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 12
io.2.550GB 8 54 80 550 630 6.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 24
io.2.1200GB 16 107 80 1200 1280 6.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 48

Note that both the root and the ephemeral disks of all I/O flavors are hosted on solid-state drives (SSDs).

GPU flavors

Flavor Cores GPUs Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
gpu.1.1gpu 14 1 117 80 0 80 8.3 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 60
gpu.1.2gpu 28 2 234 80 0 80 8.3 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 120
gpu.1.4gpu 56 4 468 80 0 80 8.3 Icon for power redundancy level NONEIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 240

Note that the root disks of all GPU flavors are hosted on solid-state drives (SSDs).

ePouta flavors

The following tables list the available virtual machine flavors in ePouta and their billing unit coefficients.

Standard flavors

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
standard.tiny 1 0.9 80 0 80 0.9 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 0.25
standard.small 2 1.9 80 0 80 0.9 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 0.5
standard.medium 3 3.9 80 0 80 1.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 1
standard.large 4 7.8 80 0 80 1.9 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 2
standard.xlarge 6 15 80 0 80 2.5 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 4
standard.xxlarge 8 31 80 0 80 3.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 8
standard.3xlarge 8 62 80 0 80 7.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 16

HPC flavors

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
hpc.5.16core 16 58 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 22.5
hpc.5.32core 32 116 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 45
hpc.5.64core 64 232 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 90
hpc.5.128core 128 464 80 0 80 3.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 180
hpc.fullnode.haswell 46 242 80 0 80 5.2 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 72
hpc.3.28core 28 120 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 48
hpc.3.56core 56 240 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 96
hpc.4.5core 5 21 80 0 80 4.2 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 8
hpc.4.10core 10 43 80 0 80 4.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 15
hpc.4.20core 20 87 80 0 80 4.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 30
hpc.4.40core 40 175 80 0 80 4.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 60
hpc.4.80core 80 351 80 0 80 4.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level FULLIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 120

I/O flavors

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
io.haswell.2core 2 9.7 20 70 90 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 4.5
io.haswell.4core 4 19 20 160 180 4.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 9
io.haswell.8core 8 39 20 350 370 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 18
io.haswell.16core 16 78 20 700 720 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 36
io.haswell.32core 32 156 20 1400 1420 4.8 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 72
io.haswell.46core 46 242 20 2100 2120 5.2 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 108
io.2.80GB 2 12,7 80 80 160 6.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 6
io.2.240GB 4 26 80 240 320 6.6 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 12
io.2.550GB 8 54 80 550 630 6.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 24
io.2.1200GB 16 107 80 1200 1280 6.7 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 48

High memory flavors

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
tb.3.480RAM 56 480 20 1650 1730 8.5 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 110
tb.3.1470RAM 80 1470 80 2500 2580 18 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 320

Note that the root disks of all high memory flavors are hosted on solid-state drives (SSDs), while the ephemeral disks are hosted using NVM Express (NVMe).

GPU flavors

Flavor Cores GPUs Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Redundancy Billing
Units
/h
gpu.1.1gpu 14 1 117 80 0 80 8.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 60
gpu.1.2gpu 28 2 234 80 0 80 8.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 120
gpu.1.4gpu 56 4 468 80 0   80 8.3 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level BASICIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 240
gpu.2.1gpu 20 1 180 80 1000 1080 9 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 100
gpu.3.1gpu 12 1 219 80 1500 1580 18 Icon for power redundancy level FULLIcon for root disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for ephemeral disk data redundancy level NONEIcon for network reachability redundancy level FULL 150

Note that both the root and the ephemeral disks of the GPU flavors are hosted on solid-state drives (SSDs).

Which type of flavor should I use?

Standard flavors

Typical use cases:

  • Web services (non-HPC)
  • Software development

These are generic flavors that are useful for running regular web services such as a web server with a database backend. They provide better availability compared to the HPC flavors.

Cloud administrators can move these virtual machines from one host machine to another without causing a break in service. This means that you are likely less affected by maintenance.

These flavors are not suitable for computationally intensive workloads. The virtual CPUs used in these instances are overcommitted, which means 32 hyperthreaded CPU cores are used to provide more than 32 virtual cores.

Flavor characteristics:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Varies
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Stored in the central storage
  • Single-node or disk failures may cause downtime, but instances are recoverable.

HPC flavors

Typical use cases:

  • Scientific applications

If your use case is computationally intensive, you should use one of the HPC flavors. The availability of these instances is not as high as the standard flavors, but you get better performance. The HPC flavors have faster CPUs and no overcommitment of CPU cores.

cPouta HPC flavor characteristics:

hpc.5.*:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core Processor,
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Stored in the central storage
  • Single-node failure may cause downtime, but instances are recoverable.

hpc.4.*:

  • No redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz, hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Stored in the central storage
  • Single-node or disk failures may cause downtime, but instances are recoverable.

hpc-gen2.*:

  • No redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Single 40 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local SATA disk, RAID-0
  • Instances can be lost due to a single-node or disk failure.

ePouta HPC flavor characteristics:

hpc.5.*:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core Processor,
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Stored in the central storage
  • Single-node failure may cause downtime, but instances are recoverable.

hpc.4*:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU Gold 6148, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Stored in the central storage
  • Single-node or disk failures may cause downtime, but instances are recoverable.

hpc.3*:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Stored in the central storage
  • Single-node or disk failures may cause downtime, but instances are recoverable.

hpc.*.haswell:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v3, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 10 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Stored in the central storage
  • Single-node or disk failures may cause downtime, but instances are recoverable.

I/O flavors

Typical use cases:

  • Hadoop/Spark
  • Non-critical centralized databases
  • Clustered databases

I/O flavors are intended to provide the best I/O performance on the virtual machine root and ephemeral disks.

As these instances are also tightly tied to the hardware, you may expect downtime of instances during the maintenance of the hardware.

The bulk of the storage is available as an ephemeral disk, typically in /dev/vdb.

Often you want to create clusters of servers with the io.* flavors. In these cases, you probably want to have your virtual machines land on different physical servers. This cannot currently be done in the web interface. To do this, please refer to the anti-affinity group commands in our command line instructions.

The availability of these instances is not as high as the standard flavors, but the I/O performance is significantly better.

cPouta IO flavor characteristics:

io.70GB-700GB:

Note

These servers have non-redundant disks, and you may expect data loss in case of disk failure.
These virtual machines can not be migrated nor resized to a different family flavor.

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 10 Gb/s or 40 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local SSD disks, RAID-0
  • Instances can be lost due to a single-node or disk failure.

io.2.*:

Note

These virtual machines can not be resized to a different family flavor.

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local NVMe disk, RAID-1
  • Instance can be lost due to a single-node or multiple simultaneous disk failures.

ePouta IO flavor characteristics:

io.haswell.*:

Note

These servers have non-redundant disks, and you may expect data loss in case of disk failure.
These virtual machines can not be migrated nor resized to a different family flavor.

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 10 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local SSD disks, RAID-0
  • Instances can be lost due to a single-node or disk failure.

io.2.*:

Note

These virtual machines can not be resized to a different family flavor.

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: AMD EPYC 7313 16-Core Processor
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local NVMe disk, RAID-1
  • Instance can be lost due to a single-node or multiple simultaneous disk failures.

GPU flavors

Typical use cases:

  • High performance compute applications leveraging GPUs
  • Machine and deep learning, e.g. TensorFlow
  • Rendering

The GPU flavors are intended to provide high performance computing using GPGPU (General Purpose computing on Graphical Processing Units). GPGPUs can significantly speed up certain algorithms and applications. The gpu.1. flavors have NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPGPUs. The gpu.2.1gpu in ePouta have a NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPGPU.

The GPGPUs are suitable for deep learning, scientific computing as well as for remote desktops, rendering or visualization. The GPGPU flavors are backed by local SSD on the servers. The SSDs in gpu.1 flavors are configured in RAID-1. This is where the OS root disk is stored. With gpu.2 flavors, the SSDs are bigger and the SSDs are configured in RAID-0 for faster staging of datasets. You can use the volumes for storing larger data sets and persistent data. If you need to read and write a lot of data between the disk and GPGPU, using volumes might affect performance when compared to local SSD disk.

To take advantage of the acceleration which GPGPUs provide, the applications you run must support them. If you write your own applications, the optimization service helps in leveraging the GPGPUs.

GPGPUs can be used for a lot of cool and interesting things, but please remember the resource usage must comply with the Terms of Use.

Limitations and caveats: 

  • As we use PCI passthrough to get the whole GPGPU into the instance. The administrators are not able to access the GPGPU and check its health. Please report any errors or problems with the GPGPUs to CSC (and attach the output of the command "nvidia-smi -q").
  • The applications must be able to utilize the GPU to get a speedup. Even though there is no specific speedup target to be met to enable GPU usage on Pouta, it is best to aim for higher speedups to compensate for the relatively higher prices per hour associated with GPUs and their relative scarcity.
  • As the majority of computing resources in Pouta are CPU-based and GPU resources are relatively limited, most likely, you will need to specify your need for GPU resources in your application or make an additional request via servicedesk@csc.fi to enable their usage on your existing Pouta application.

These instances are also tightly tied to the hardware. You may expect downtime of instances during the maintenance of the hardware.

Users also have the possibility to use NVIDIA Volta V100 GPGPUs in the batch system on Technical details about Puhti.

cPouta flavor characteristics:

gpu.1.*:

  • No redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 10 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local SSD disks, RAID-1
  • Instance can be lost due to a single-node or multiple simultaneous disk failures.

ePouta flavor characteristics:

gpu.1.*:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 10 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local SSD disks, RAID-1
  • Instance can be lost due to a single-node or disk failure.

gpu.2.*:

  • Only available via request to servicedesk@csc.fi
  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148, with hyper-threading
  • NUMA Aware: yes (CPU <> memory, not PCI devices)
  • Network: Redundant 10 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local SSD disks, RAID-0
  • Instance can be lost due to a single-node or disk failure.

gpu.3.*:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core Processor
  • Network: Redundant 10 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local NVMe disks
  • Instance can be lost due to a single-node or disk failure.
  • Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) is supported

Installation and configuration of GPU Flavors

We have specific CUDA images available for the GPU nodes. These images come pre-installed with the freshest CUDA version. Note that the CUDA images are not configured with auto update. You can use any other images with the GPU flavors, but you have to install the required libraries yourself. How CSC customizes the images.

High memory flavors (only in ePouta)

Typical use cases:

  • Scientific applications requiring large amounts of memory

These flavors have large amounts of memory and are meant for use cases which require and can utilize such amounts of memory. Typical use cases of these flavors include genome sequencing and analysis applications.

The resize/migration functionalities do not work for these instances.

If you need to move a workload from another type of VM to an instance with a high memory flavor, i.e., a TB instance, either move all data and install all applications manually on the new TB instance or create a snapshot of the source VM. Then convert that snapshot to a volume and use the volume to create the new TB-flavor VM.

If you need to move a workload from a TB instance to another instance, either move all data and install all applications manually on a new VM or create a snapshot of the source VM. Please note that all ephemeral disk data will be lost in the process and will not be stored in the snapshot because only the TB VM root disk is stored in the snapshot.

Flavor characteristics:

tb.3.*:

  • Redundant power
  • CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4, with hyper-threading or Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2698 v4, with hyper-threading
  • Network: Redundant 25 Gb/s
  • Flavor disk: Local SSD disks, RAID-0
  • Instances can be lost due to a single-node or disk failure.

Deprecated flavors

This is the set of original flavors that has been available since the launch. You should not launch any new virtual machines using any of these flavors. Existing virtual machines that use these flavors will continue to work. We will maintain these flavors for a period of time, but they will be removed at some point in the near future.

Flavor Cores Memory
(GiB)
Root
disk
(GB)
Ephemeral
disk
(GB)
Total
disk
(GB)
Memory/
core
(GiB)
Billing
Units
/h
hpc-gen1.1core 1 3.7 80 (RAID0) 0 80 3.7 2
hpc-gen1.4core 4 15 80 (RAID0) 0 80 3.7 8
hpc-gen1.8core 8 30 80 (RAID0) 0 80 3.7 16
hpc-gen1.16core 16 60 80 (RAID0) 0 80 3.7 32
hpc-gen2.2core 2 10 80 (RAID0) 0 80 5 4
hpc-gen2.8core 8 40 80 (RAID0) 0 80 5 15
hpc-gen2.16core 16 80 80 (RAID0) 0 80 5 30
tiny 1 1 10 (RAID0) 110 (RAID0) 120 1 2
mini 1 3.5 10 (RAID0) 110 (RAID0) 120 1.7 2
small 4 15 10 (RAID0) 220 (RAID0) 230 3.8 8
medium 8 30 10 (RAID0) 440 (RAID0) 450 3.8 16
large 12 45 10 (RAID0) 660 (RAID0) 670 3.8 24
fullnode 16 60 10 (RAID0) 900 (RAID0) 910 3.8 32
hpc.mini 2 3.5 80 0 80 1.8 5
hpc.small 4 7 80 0 80 1.8 10
hpc.medium.haswell 8 40 80 0 80 5 20
hpc.large.haswell 16 80 80 0 80 5 40
hpc.xlarge.haswell 32 156 80 0 80 5 80
hpc.medium.westmere 8 14 80 0 80 1.8 8
hpc.large.westmere 16 28 80 0 80 1.8 16
hpc.xlarge.westmere 23 41 80 0 80 1.8 24
hpc.largemem.westmere 23 90 80 0 80 4 36
tb.4.735RAM 80 735 80 (SSD/RAID0) 3300 (SSD/RAID0) 3380 9.2 220 (350)
tb.westmere.32core 32 488 80 (RAID6) 3250 (RAID6) 3330 15.2 200
tb.westmere.64core 64 976 80 (RAID6) 6500 (RAID6) 6580 15.2 400

Last update: March 13, 2024