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Hardware Overview

The ACE HPC Cluster is designed for bioinformatics and data-intensive research. Below are its key components.

CPU Compute Nodes

TypeQuantityTotal CoresTotal MemoryStorage
CPU5615,2325,376 GB503.2 TB

GPU Compute Nodes

TypeQuantityCUDA CoresMemoryInterconnect
GPU427,648320 GBNVLink (600 GB/s) or PCIe Gen 4 (64 GB/s)

Specifications

Each of the nodes is a Dell PowerEdge C6320p, a high density, 2U rack server designed for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.

CPU

PropertyValue
Architecturex86_64
CPU op-mode(s)32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte OrderLittle Endian
CPU(s)272
On-line CPU(s) list0-271
Vendor IDGenuineIntel
Model nameIntel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) CPU 7250 @ 1.40GHz
CPU family6
Model87
Thread(s) per core4
Core(s) per socket68
Memory96 GB
Socket(s)1
Stepping1

GPU

PropertyValue
ArchitectureNVIDIA Ampere
GPU VariantGA100-880-A1
Process Size7nm (TSMC)
Transistors54.2 Billion
CUDA Cores6,912
Tensor Cores432 (3rd Generation)
Memory Size80GB
Memory TypeHBM2e
Memory Bus Width5,120-bit
Memory Bandwidth19.5 TFLOPS
FP32 Performance9.7 TFLOPS
TF32 Tensor Core156 TFLOPS (312 TFLOPS Sparse)
BFLOAT16 Tensor Core312 TFLOPS (624 TFLOPS Sparse)
Multi-Instance GPUUp to 7 Instances (10GB each)
InterconnectNVLink (600 GB/s) / PCIe 4.0 x16
TDP (Thermal Design Power)400W (SXM) / 300W (PCIe)

Interconnect

  • 10 Gb/s NREN connection (RENU).

Login Nodes

  • 1 login node, with 64 cores and 16 GB RAM.

Additional Details

  • 200Mbps internet connection (RENU).

See Storage for file system details.