Following a successful testing period, the HPC Team is pleased to announce that the Athena GPU cluster is now available for production use.
Existing DGX cluster users may request access to the Athena cluster by sending a short email with the subject line ‘Athena access request’ to hpc-admin@technion.ac.il .
New GPU cluster users will be granted access to Athena automatically following the submission of the registration form.
Below, please find the list of currently available Athena resources as shown by SLURM info. More GPU servers will be added to the cluster in the future.
We strongly recommend to study carefully the Athena GPU Cluster User Guide before beginning to work on Athena. This recommendation refers to fresh GPU users, as well as to current DGX cluster users, as the software environment and SLURM resource management policies differ significantly from those, implemented on DGX cluster.
During the testing period the usage of access to Athena was provided free of charge. Beginning May 1 2026 the usage fees will be applied, as described at the HPC Billing Procedure page in the section covering ATHENA and DGX clusters.
Please note that billing was simulated during the transition period from April 1, 2026, to May 1, 2026. Accordingly, the usage reports you receive in the beginning of May will be for informational purposes only. The first actual usage reports, based on which payment orders will be issued to the relevant groups, will be sent in the beginning of June 2026.
We also welcome you to explore Odin, Athena’s new browser-based interface powered by Open OnDemand. Odin currently provides several Interactive Applications, including JupyterLab for ready-to-use PyTorch and TensorFlow development environments.Additional Interactive Applications will be added over time based on research groups requests.
For questions/assistance please send a message to <hpcadmin@technion.ac.il> or open a ticket at the Service Portal