High Performance Density – 2048 CPU processor cores, 256 accelerators, up to 350 TFlops in just 1.5 m2
Energy efficiency– the Aurora direct cooling target datacenter PUE of 1.05, no need for air conditioning, up to 50% less energy
Power and programmability – A choice of accelerators to suite customer needs, no portability issues with ®Intel Phi
Flexible Liquid Cooling– All components are cooled by water, temperature from 18°C to 52°C and variable flow rates
Reliability– 3 independent sensor networks, soldered memory, no moving parts, uniform cooling, quality controls
CONFIGURATION
2 CPUs per node + 2 Accelerators per node
16 nodes per chassis
16 chassis per rack
256 CPUs and 256 accelerators per rack
PERFORMANCE
Up to 350 TFlop/s per rack (peak)
CPU
Xeon E5 series
ACCELERATORS
2 x Nvidia Kepler K20 per node OR
2 x Intel Xeon Phi 5120D per node
MEMORY
Up to 64GB per node
ECC DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MT/s
Bandwidth: 85.3 GB/s per compute node
Soldered on board
INTERFACES PER NODE
1 x Infiniband QDR/FDR port (40/56 Gb/s)
1x Gigabit Ethernet port
6 (3+3) x 3D Torus interconnects (240+240 Gb/s), ~1us latency
INTERFACES (I/O) PER CHASSIS
20 x Infiniband QDR/FDR ports
17 x Gigabit Ethernet ports
LOCAL STORAGE PER NODE
1 X 2048 GB 2,5" Sata Disk
1 X 512 GB 1,8" microSATA SSD
Option for additional 2 x 2TB SATA spinning disks
Option for additional 2X PCIe connected SSD
OPERATING SYSTEM
Cent OS, RedHat or Suse
POWER AND COOLING
Aurora Direct Hot Water Cooling
Power per rack: 100 kW
SOFTWARE
Bright Cluster Manager, ParTec Parastation, PBS Professional, Intel Cluster Studio, Lustre Parallel File System, Cuda, Allinea, CAPS