Ferranti System Architecture
This page describes the infrastructure that makes up the Ferranti Cluster.
Login Nodes
There will be two login nodes for Ferranti:
TBD
| Feature | Specifications |
|---|---|
| CPUs: | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6430 CPUs (32 Cores, 2.1 GHz) |
| RAM: | 1024GB DDR5-4800 |
| HCA: | 2x NVidia Mellanox ConnectX-7 NDR200 Adapter |
Ferranti: Compute Infrastructure
The 5 GPU compute nodes with the following specifications:
| Feature | Specifications |
|---|---|
| Total Nodes: | 5 |
| Accelerators: | 8 Nvidia H100 in SXM5 / node |
| FP32 Cores: | 16896 / card |
| FP64 Cores: | 8448 / card |
| NVIDIA Tensor Cores: | 528 / card |
| GPU Memory: | 80GB HBM3 / card (bandwidth: 3.35TB/s) |
| CPUs: | 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 CPUs, 48 cores, 2.1 GHz |
| RAM: | 2048GB DDR5-4800 |
| HCA: | 6x NVidia Mellanox ConnectX-7 NDR400 Adapter |
| Local Storage: | 96TB NVMe in RAID0 |
| Theoretical Peak Performance: | -- |
Ferranti: Interconnect
Ferranti has Fat Tree interconnect topology with the following composition:
| Feature | Specifications |
|---|---|
| Number of core switches: | 4 |
| Number of edge switches: | 6 |
| Interconnect topology and type: | NDR InfiniBand Fat Tree, non-blocking |
| Blocking factor: | 1:1 |
| Switch type: | Nvidia NDR switch with bandwidth of 400 Gb/s per port. |