Hardware
Launch: A Dell x86 HPC Cluster
System Name: |
Launch |
Operating System: |
Red Hat Enterprise 8 |
Total Compute Cores/Nodes: |
8640 cores |
Compute Nodes: |
35 AMD Genoa CPU Nodes with 384 GB 10 AMD Genoa GPU nodes each with 2 NVIDIA A30s and 768 GB |
Interconnect: |
NVIDIA HDR100 |
Peak Performance: |
436 TFLOPS |
Global Disk: |
2.2 PB (usable) via Dell storage server |
File System: |
NFS |
Batch Facility: |
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Location: |
West Campus Data Center |
Production Date: |
Late 2023 or early 2024 |
Launch is a Dell Linux cluster with 45 compute nodes (8,640 cores) and 2 login nodes. There are 35 compute nodes with 384 GB memory and 10 GPU compute nodes with 768 GB memory and two NVIDIA A30s. The interconnecting fabric uses a single NVIDIA HDR100 InfiniBand switch. Shared storage consists of 2 PB ZFS based storage accessed via NFS.
Compute Nodes
Table 2: Details of Compute Nodes
| CPU Nodes | GPU Nodes | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor Type | AMD EPYC Genoa 9654 | AMD EPYC Genoa 9654 |
| Sockets per node | 2 | 2 |
| Cores per socket | 96 | 96 |
| Cores per Node | 192 | 192 |
| Clock rate (Base/Max Boost) | 2.4 GHz / 3.7 GHz | 2.4 GHz / 3.7 GHz |
| Memory | 384 GB DDR5-4800 | 768 GB DDR5-4800 |
| Cache | 384 MB | 384 MB |
| Local Disk Space | 200 GB (/tmp) | 200 GB (/tmp) |
Login Nodes
Table 3: Details of Login Nodes
| launch-login1 | launch-login2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor Type | AMD EPYC Genoa 9124 | AMD EPYC Genoa 9124 |
| Sockets per node | 2 | 2 |
| Cores per socket | 16 | 16 |
| Cores per Node | 32 | 32 |
| Clock rate (Base/Max Boost) | 3 GHz / 3.7 GHz | 3 GHz / 3.7 GHz |
| Memory | 384 GB | 384 GB |
| GPU | -- | one NVIDIA A30 |