Albedo will be the successor of Ollie. NEC has won the procurement and will install in June 2022 (rather late due to the general delays in delivery ):
- 2 login nodes
- 240 compute nodes with
- 2x AMD Rome Epyc 7702 2GHz (3.3GHz Boost), 64 Core, cTDP reduced from 200W to 165W
- 256 GB RAM,
- 500GB SSD
- Fast interconnect: HDR Infinband
- 4 "fat" nodes as above, 4TB RAM, 500GB SSD + 7.5TB SSD
- 1 GPU node with 1TB RAM, 4x NVIDIA A100/80
- + one additional GPU node with smaller equipment for interactive access: testing, Jupyter notebooks,...
- 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
- 5 PB /scratch NEC GxFS (IBM Spectrum Scale)
- 220 TB as NVMe SSDs as fast cache and/or burst buffer
- extension (capacity, bandwidth) possible
- All nodes connected to /isibhv (NFS, 10GbE)
- Alma Linux ("free RedHat")
The FESOM2 Benchmark we used for the procurement on 240 Albedo nodes compares to 800 Ollie nodes.