Technical specifications
Manufacturer: HPE Cray
Model: EX Supercomputer
- More than 500 AMD EPYC “Milan” CPU nodes (65k cores total)
- 64 cores, 2.55GHz, 2 per node
- 256GB per node
- Eight 1 TB High Mem CPU nodes
- Eight Data mover nodes
- Sixteen Visualization nodes
- Four Login nodes
- Connected by HPE’s Slingshot interconnect (100Gb/sec)
- Lustre file systems /scratch (14 PB [3 SSD, 11 HDD]), /software
- NFS /home
Wajarri Yamatji visual artist Margaret Whitehurst produced the artwork for Setonix, inspired by the stars that shine over Wajarri country in Western Australia’s Mid-West.
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