Hardware

• 2 2x interactive login nodes
  • 512 GiB RAM
  • 2x SSD 480 GB SATA
  • 1x SSD 1,92 TB
• 1x interactive GPU node with
  
  • 2x NVDIA A40
  • for testing, Jupyter notebooks, Matlab, ...

• 240x standard compute nodes (je vier in einem NEC HPC2824Ri-2) ????????

  • 64bit-Prozessoren, AMD Rome (Epyc 7702) Serie

  • 2 processors per node ???????????????
  240 compute nodes with
  • 2x AMD Rome Epyc 7702 2GHz (3.3GHz Boost),  64 Core, cTDP reduced from 200W to 165W
  • 2GHz (3.3GHz Boost)
  • 256 GB RAM,
  • 500GB SSD
• 4 "fat" nodes as above, 4TB RAM, 500GB SSD + 7.5TB SSD
• 1 GPU node with 1TB RAM, 4x NVIDIA A100/80
  • More GPU nodes will follow later, after we gained first experience of what you really need, and to offer most recent hardware
• Our small test node with NEC's new vector engine "SX-Aurora TSUBASA" can be integrated
• Fast interconnect: HDR Infinband or OmniPath
• • RAM

  • 8 DIMMs pro Prozessor mit 16GB DDR4-3200 → 128 Cores und 256 GiB RAM pro Standard-Knoten.

  • 512 GiB NVMe pro Knoten

• 4x fat nodes (jeweils in einem NEC HPC2104Ri-1)
  • 4 TiB RAM
  • 512 GiB + 7.68 TiB NVMe (je Knoten) ???????????????
  • 7.5TB SSD
• 4x GPU nodes (HPC22G8Ri)
  
  • Nvidia A100
  • 512 GiB RAM
  • 3x3.84 TiB = 11.52 TiB NVMe
• File Storage:
  • IBM Spectrum Scale (GxFS)
  • Tier 1: 220 TB NVMe
  5 PB work/scratch NEC GxFS (IBM Spectrum Scale)
  • 220 TB as NVMe SSDs as fast cache and/or burst buffer
  • Tier 2: ~5.38 PB NL-SAS HDD (NetApp EF300)
  • future extension of both tiers (capacity, bandwidth) is possible

• Fast interconnect: HDR Infinband
• All nodes connected to /isibhv (NFS, 10GbE)
• Alma Linux ("free RedHat", version 8.x)
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  • More GPU nodes will follow later, after we gained first experience of what you really need, and to offer most recent hardware
• Our small test node with NEC's new vector engine "SX-Aurora TSUBASA" can be integrated

The FESOM2 Benchmark we used for the procurement on 240 Albedo nodes compares to 800 Ollie nodes.

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