A (nearly) complete list of the equipment that currently (June 2026) makes up Hex.
Core Hypervisors
hex-hypervisor-001
Primerily tasked with the core virtual services to run the cluster, including the login node, the web services, and the ingress instance. Also hosts 2 RTX A5000 cards for IO-coupled jobs. Donated by HP to the cluster. Thank you HP!
80 Core Intel Xeon 6240 @ 2.59Ghz
2x RTX A5000 24GB
384GB RAM
2x 1TiB NVMe + 2x 4TiB HDD
10GB/s Fiber
Services
Status
hex-hypervisor-002
Primary storage hypervisor for the cluster, tasked with providing large-scale storage to the compute nodes and the virtual services
- 96TiB ZRAID + 2
- 10GB/s Fiber
Status
The 'Core 11'
hex-host-001 - hex-host-011
The lower-end compute nodes of the cluster. High-availability nodes each with an RTX A2000.
- 20 core 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700
- 1x RTX A2000 12GB
- 32GB RAM
- 512-1024 GiB NVMe
- 1 GB/s Ethernet
Services
Status
hex-host-001
hex-host-002
hex-host-003
hex-host-004
hex-host-005
hex-host-006
hex-host-007
hex-host-008
hex-host-009
hex-host-010
hex-host-011
The 'Extended 3'
hex-host-013 - hex-host-015
The high-end compute nodes of the cluster. High-availability nodes each with 3x RTX A5000 cards.
- 64 Core Intel Xeon Silver 4216 CPU @ 2.10GHz
- RTX A5000 24GB
- 128GB RAM
- 512 GiB NVMe + 1 TiB NVMe
- 1 GB/s Ethernet
Services
Status
hex-host-013
hex-host-014
hex-host-015
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