FASTER:Intro
FASTER: A Dell x86 HPC Cluster
Hardware Overview
| System Name: | FASTER |
| Host Name: | faster.hprc.tamu.edu |
| Operating System: | Linux (CentOS 8) |
| Total Compute Cores/Nodes: | 11,520 cores 180 nodes |
| Compute Nodes: | 180 64-core compute nodes, each with 256GB RAM |
| Composable GPUs: | 200 T4 16GB GPUs 40 A100 40GB GPUs 10 A10 24GB GPUs 4 A30 24GB GPUs 8 A40 48GB GPUs |
| Interconnect: | Mellanox HDR 100 InfiniBand (MPI and storage) Liqid PCIe Gen4 (GPU composability) |
| Peak Performance: | 1.2 PFLOPS |
| Global Disk: | 5PB (usable) via DDN Lustre appliances |
| File System: | Lustre |
| Batch Facility: | Slurm by SchedMD |
| Location: | West Campus Data Center |
| Production Date: | 2021 |
FASTER is a 184-node Intel cluster from Dell with an InfiniBand HDR-100 interconnect. A100 GPUs, A10 GPUs, A30 GPUs, A40 GPUs and T4 GPUs are distributed and composable via Liqid PCIe fabrics. All login and compute nodes are based on the Intel Xeon 8352Y Ice Lake processor.
