Discover SCU Hardware Specifications

The following page contains hardware specifications for each of the Scalable Units, in the Discover cluster.

Scalable Unit 16 – CPU-only Nodes

  • Manufacturer: Aspen Systems Inc
  • 1,912 Tflop/s
  • 32,448 Intel Xeon Cascade Lake Refresh processor cores
  • 676 Supermicro TwinPro nodes
  • 2 24-core processors per node
  • 192 GB of memory per node
  • No Swap Space
  • 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Cascade Lake Refresh
  • Interconnect: HDR100 Infiniband 100 Gbps
  • Production: 3Q 2021

Scalable Unit 16 – CPU & GPU Nodes

  • Manufacturer: Aspen Systems Inc
  • 12 Supermicro GPU nodes, each with AMD EPYC Rome and 4 NVIDIA A100 GPUs
    • Four NVIDIA A100 GPUs per node, each with
      • 9.7 Dual precision TFLOP/s
      • 6,912 CUDA cores
      • 40 GB memory
      • 600 GB/s NVLINK GPU to GPU connection
    • AMD EPYC Rome 48-core nodes:
      • 516 Tflop/s total
      • 576 total AMD EPYC Rome processor cores
      • 2 24-core processors per node
      • 512 GB of memory per node
      • 2.8 GHz AMD EPYC Rome
      • No Swap Space
      • Interconnect: Dual HDR Infiniband 2×200 Gbps
  • Production: 3Q 2021

Scalable Unit 17 – CPU-only Nodes

  • Manufacturer: Aspen Systems Inc
  • 2,883 Tflop/s
  • 90,112 AMD Milan EPYC processor cores
  • 704 Supermicro TwinPro nodes
  • 2 64-core processors per node
  • 512 GB of memory per node
  • No Swap Space
  • 2.0 GHz AMD Milan EPYC
  • Interconnect: HDR100 Infiniband 100 Gbps
  • Production: 4Q 2023

Scalable Unit 18 – CPU-only Nodes

  • Manufacturer: Aspen Systems Inc
  • 2,883 Tflop/s
  • 90,112 AMD Milan EPYC processor cores
  • 704 Supermicro TwinPro nodes
  • 2 64-core processors per node
  • 512 GB of memory per node
  • No Swap Space
  • 2.0 GHz AMD Milan EPYC
  • Interconnect: HDR100 Infiniband 100 Gbps
  • Production: 2Q 2024