HX1 is designated for high-performance "capability" computing (HPC) users who run multi-node or GPU-accelerated workflows, requiring more than 48GB of GPU RAM and/or strong double-precision performance. Users should have demonstrable experience with HPC clusters.

Specification

  • Compute nodes: Lenovo SD630v2 servers each with 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 (Ice Lake) 2.60GHz 32-core processors; 64 cores per node; 288 nodes; 18,432 compute cores; 512 GB RAM per node
  • GPU nodes: Lenovo servers each with 4 x NVidia A100 80 GB RAM GPUs; 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8360Y (Ice Lake) 2.40GHz 36-core processors; 1 TB RAM per node; 15 nodes; 60 GPUs in total
  • Interconnect: NVidia ConnectX-6 HDR200 (200 Gbit/s) InfiniBand
  • Storage: 2 PB IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) on Lenovo DSS-G Storage system. Approximately 300TB of additional solid stage storage

Total: 303 compute nodes, 19,512 cores, 159 TB of RAM, 60 A100 GPUs

Further details including how to request access can be found on the .