Cardinal

OSC's Cardinal cluster is slated to launch in 2024. 

 

Detailed system specifications:

  • 378 Dell Nodes, 39,312 total cores, 128 GPUs 

  • Dense Compute: 326 Dell PowerEdge C6620 two-socket servers, each with: 

    • 2 Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 (Sapphire Rapids, 52 cores [48 usable], 2.0 GHz) processors 

    • 128 GB HBM2e and 512 GB DDR5 memory 

    • 1.6 TB NVMe local storage 

    • NDR200 Infiniband 

  • GPU Compute: 32 Dell PowerEdge XE9640 two-socket servers, each with: 

    • 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8470 (Sapphire Rapids, 52 cores [48 usable], 2.0 GHz) processors 

    • 1 TB DDR5 memory 

    • 4 NVIDIA H100 (Hopper) GPUs each with 94 GB HBM2e memory and NVIDIA NVLink 

    • 12.8 TB NVMe local storage 

    • Four NDR400 Infiniband HCAs supporting GPUDirect 

  • Analytics: 16 Dell PowerEdge R660 two-socket servers, each with: 

    • 2 Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 (Sapphire Rapids, 52 cores [48 usable], 2.0 GHz) processors 

    • 128 GB HBM2e and 2 TB DDR5 memory 

    • 12.8 TB NVMe local storage 

    • NDR200 Infiniband 

  • Login nodes: 4 Dell PowerEdge R660 two-socket servers, each with: 

    • 2 Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 (Sapphire Rapids, 52 cores [48 usable], 2.0 GHz) processors 

    • 128 GB HBM and 1 TB DDR5 memory 

    • 3.2 TB NVMe local storage 

    • NDR200 Infiniband  

    • IP address: TBD 

  • ~10.5 PF Theoretical system peak performance  

    • ~8 PetaFLOPs (GPU) 

    • ~2.5 PetaFLOPS (CPU) 

  • 9 Physical racks, plus Two Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs) providing direct-to-the-chip liquid cooling for all nodes 

Service: 
HPC