SPORC Overview

Head over to the RC Dashboards to see our SPORC cluster in action!

You can also take a look at our cluster benchmarking results.

SPORC Cluster: (Scheduled Processing On Research Computing)

• 2304 cores (Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6150 CPU @ 2.70GHz)
• Linpack benchmark, cpu-only: 105 TFLOPS
• 24TB RAM
• 100 Gbit/sec RoCEv2 interconnect (Mellanox MLX5/Juniper QFX5210-64c)
• 64 SuperMicro X11 systems with space for 4 GPU cards
• 100 Nvidia A100 cards
  • 40GB HBM2
  • 156 TFLOPS TF32
  • 312 TFLOPS FP16
  • 624 TOPS Int8
• 16 Nvidia V100 cards
  • 32GB HBM2
  • 14 TFLOPS single-precision
  • 7 TFLOPS double-precision
  • 56 TOPS Int8
  • 112 TensorFLOPS
• 96 Nvidia P4 cards
  • 8GB GDDR5
  • 5.5 TFLOPS single-precision
  • 22 TOPS Int8
• Interactive Partition:
  • 148 cores
  • 525GB RAM
  • 2 Nvidia A100 cards
  • 42 Nvidia P4 cards

Ceph (Block and Filesystem) Storage

• 9.5PB of storage comprised of
• 200G NVMe hot tier
• 6PB 7200RPM SAS bulk tier
• 3.5PB 7200RPM SATA cold tier
• 15TB Intel(R) Optane(R) NVMe CephFS metadata tier
• Dual 100 Gbit/sec RoCEv2 interconnect (Mellanox MLX5/Juniper QFX5210-64c)

Large Single-System-Image Compute Node (theocho)

• SYS-7089P Supermicro 8-way
• 144 cores (Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8168 CPU @ 2.70GHz)
• Linpack benchmark, cpu-only: 4 TFLOPS
• 2.3TB RAM
• 1 Nvidia V100 card

Operating System

• Red Hat Enterprise 7