Technical specifications
Manufacturer: Xenon
Compute Processors: Dual Intel “Cascade Lake” Silver 4215 2.5 GHz 8-core processors
Computing Power: 43 TFLOPs compute power and 308 teraFLOPS GPU power
Memory: 192 GB (with four nodes with 384 GB)
Interconnect: Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100 (100Gb/s) InfiniBand adapters in all nodes
Network Topology: Fat Tree
Nodes: 42 (20 with NVIDIA QUADRO RTX5000 16GB GPU and 22 with dual NVIDIA Tesla V100 16 GB GPUs)
Weight: 857 kg
Power consumption: 31 kW
Local storage: Intel® S4510 240 GB 2.5” SSD for boot/swap
GPUs are accelerators which provide huge amounts of compute power but require less electrical power to run in comparison to conventional CPUs. Topaz will provide users with enhanced GPU capabilities, in particular, AI, computational work, machine learning workflows and data analytics
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