In addition to its large supercomputers, IT4Innovations also operates smaller complementary systems. These systems represent emerging, non-traditional or highly specialised hardware architectures that are not yet common in the supercomputing centres. Complementary systems consist of multiple hardware platforms.

The first part of the complementary systems was launched in autumn 2022 and the second in spring 2023. In the second phase, EVIDEN (formerly ATOS), in collaboration with M Computers, delivered and implemented four new hardware platforms based on servers from Gigabyte, IBM and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Technical specifications of the complementary systems, consisting of several hardware platforms:

 

Compute partition 6 – ARM + CUDA GPGU (Ampere) + DPU

This partition consists of Gigabyte G242-P36 Server, Ampere Altra Q80-30 (80c, 3.0GHz) with ARM processors and includes GPGPU CUDA programmable accelerators with Ampere architecture and DPU processors.

Configuration of each compute node:

  • 512GB DIMM DDR4, 3200MHz, ECC, CL22
  • 2x Micron 7400 PRO 1920GB NVMe M.2 Non-SED Enterprise SSD
  • 2x NVIDIA A30 GPU Accelerator
  • 2x NVIDIA BlueField-2 E-Series DPU 25GbE Dual-Port SFP56, PCIe Gen4 x16, 16GB DDR + 64, 200Gb Ethernet
  • Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN network interface card, 10/25GbE dual-port SFP28, PCIe3.0 x8
  • Mellanox ConnectX-6 VPI adapter card, 100Gb/s (HDR100, EDR IB and 100GbE), single-port QSFP56

 

NVIDIA BLUEFIELD-2 DPU

 

Compute partition 7 – IBM Power

Consists of a single server with two IBM Power10 processors, fast memory and fast NVMe storage. The server is suitable for computations where performance is limited by the performance of the storage system and for porting applications to the Power platform.

IBM POWER S1022 server specification:

  • 2x Power10 12-CORE TYPICAL 2.90 TO 4.0 GHZ (MAX) PO
  • 512GB DDIMMS, 3200 MHZ, 8GBIT DDR4
  • 2x ENTERPRISE 1.6 TB SSD PCIE4 NVME U.2 MOD
  • 2x ENTERPRISE 6.4 TB SSD PCIE4 NVME U.2 MOD
  • PCIE3 LP 2-PORT 25/10GB NIC&ROCE SR/CU A

 

IBM POWER S1022

                   

 

Compute partition 8 – CPU with a very large L3 cache

It is based on the HPE Proliant DL 385 Gen10 server with a very large L3 cache. The platform allows to develop algorithms and libraries requiring a large L3 cache (linear algebra, relatively small matrices).

Specification:

  • Server HPE Proliant DL 385 Gen10 Plus v2 CTO
  • 2x AMD EPYC 7773X Milan-X, 64 cores, 2.2GHz, 768 MB L3 cache
  • 16x HPE 16GB (1x+16GB) x4 DDR4-3200 Registered Smart Memory Kit
  • 2x 3.84TB NVMe RI SFF BC U.3ST MV SSD
  • BCM 57412 10GbE 2p SFP+ OCP3 Adptr
  • HPE IB HDR100/EN 100Gb 1p QSFP56 Adptr1
  • HPE Cray Programming Environment for x86 Systems 2 Seats

 

AMD EPYC 7773X

        

Compute partition 9 – VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)

This partition consists of two HPE Proliant DL 385 Gen10 servers and each server is equipped with two NVIDIA A40 48 GB GPUs. The platform provides users with a remote/virtual workstation running MS Windows OS with a graphical interface and a focus on 3D OpenGL and RayTracing applications.

Configuration of each node:

  • Server HPE Proliant DL 385 Gen10 Plus v2 CTO
  • 2x AMD EPYC 7413, 24 cores, 2.55GHz
  • 16x HPE 32GB 2Rx4 PC4-3200AA-R Smart Kit
  • 2x 3.84TB NVMe RI SFF BC U.3ST MV SSD
  • BCM 57412 10GbE 2p SFP+ OCP3 Adptr
  • 2x NVIDIA A40 48GB GPU Accelerator

 

NVIDIA A40

                   

Software available on compute partition 9:

  • Academic VMware Horizon 8 Enterprise Term Edition: 10 Concurrent User Pack for 4 year term license; includes SnS
  • 8x NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, per concurrent user, EDU, perpetual license
  • 32x NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, per concurrent user, EDU SUMS per year
  • 7x Windows Server 2022 Standard - 16 Core License Pack
  • 10x Windows Server 2022 - 1 User CAL
  • 40x Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 VDA (Microsoft) per year
  • Hardware VMware Horizon management