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Complementary Systems Specifications

Below are the technical specifications of individual Complementary systems.

Partition 0 - ARM (Cortex-A72)

The partition is based on the ARMv8-A 64-bit nebo architecture.

  • Cortex-A72
    • ARMv8-A 64-bit
    • 2x 32 cores @ 2 GHz
    • 255 GB memory
  • disk capacity 3,7 TB
  • 1x Infiniband FDR 56 Gb/s

Partition 1 - ARM (A64FX)

The partition is based on the Armv8.2-A architecture with SVE extension of instruction set and consists of 8 compute nodes with the following per-node parameters:

  • 1x Fujitsu A64FX CPU
    • Arm v8.2-A ISA CPU with Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) extension
    • 48 cores at 2.0 GHz
    • 32 GB of HBM2 memory
  • 400 GB SSD (m.2 form factor) – mixed used type
  • 1x Infiniband HDR100 interface
    • connected via 16x PCI-e Gen3 slot to the CPU

Partition 02 - Intel (Ice Lake, NVDIMMs)

The partition is based on the Intel Ice Lake x86 architecture. It contains two servers with Intel NVDIMM memories.

Each server has the following parameters:

  • 2x 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processors Intel Xeon Gold 6338 CPU
    • 32-cores @ 2.00GHz
  • 16x 16GB RAM with ECC
    • DDR4-3200
  • 1x Infiniband HDR100 interface
    • connected to CPU 8x PCI-e Gen4 interface
  • 3.2 TB NVMe local storage – mixed use type

In addition, the servers has the following parameters:

  • Intel server 1 – low NVDIMM memory server with 2304 GB NVDIMM memory
    • 16x 128GB NVDIMM persistent memory modules
  • Intel server 2 – high NVDIMM memory server with 8448 GB NVDIMM memory
    • 16x 512GB NVDIMM persistent memory modules

Software installed on the partition:

FPGA boards support application development using following design flows:

  • OpenCL
  • High-Level Synthesis (C/C++) including support for OneAPI
  • Verilog and VHDL

Partition 03 - AMD (Milan, MI100 GPUs + Xilinx FPGAs)

The partition is based on two servers equipped with AMD Milan x86 CPUs, AMD GPUs and Xilinx FPGAs architectures and represents an alternative to the Intel-based partition's ecosystem.

Each server has the following parameters:

  • 2x AMD Milan 7513 CPU
    • 32 cores @ 2.6 GHz
  • 16x 16GB RAM with ECC
    • DDR4-3200
  • 4x AMD GPU accelerators MI 100
    • Interconnected with AMD Infinity Fabric™ Link for fast GPU to GPU communication
  • 1x 100 GBps Infiniband HDR100
    • connected to CPU via 8x PCI-e Gen4 interface
  • 3.2 TB NVMe local storage – mixed use

In addition:

Software installed on the partition:

FPGA boards support application development using following design flows:

  • OpenCL
  • High-Level Synthesis (C/C++)
  • Verilog and VHDL
  • developer tools and libraries for AMD GPUs.

Partition 04 - Edge Server

The partition provides overview of the so-called edge computing class of resources with solutions powerful enough to provide data analytic capabilities (both CPU and GPU) in a form factor which cannot require a data center to operate.

The partition consists of one edge computing server with following parameters:

  • 1x x86_64 CPU Intel Xeon D-1587
    • TDP 65 W,
    • 16 cores,
    • 435 GFlop/s theoretical max performance in double precision
  • 1x CUDA programmable GPU NVIDIA Tesla T4
    • TDP 70W
    • theoretical performance 8.1 TFlop/s in FP32
  • 128 GB RAM
  • 1.92TB SSD storage
  • connectivity:
    • 2x 10 Gbps Ethernet,
    • WiFi 802.11 ac,
    • LTE connectivity

Partition 05 - FPGA Synthesis Server

FPGAs design tools usually run for several hours to one day to generate a final bitstream (logic design) of large FPGA chips. These tools are usually sequential, therefore part of the system is a dedicated server for this task.

This server is used by development tools needed for FPGA boards installed in both Compute partition 2 and 3.

  • AMD EPYC 72F3, 8 cores @ 3.7 GHz nominal frequency
    • 8 memory channels with ECC
  • 128 GB of DDR4-3200 memory with ECC
    • memory is fully populated to maximize memory subsystem performance
  • 1x 10Gb Ethernet port used for connection to LAN
  • NVMe local storage
    • 2x NVMe disks 3.2TB, configured RAID 1