The following are technical specifications for Ascend. Â
- Number of Nodes
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24 nodes
- Number of CPU Sockets
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48 (2 sockets/node)
- Number of CPU Cores
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2,304 (96 cores/node)
- Cores Per Node
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96 cores/node (88 usable cores/node)
- Internal Storage
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12.8 TB NVMe internal storage
- Compute CPU Specifications
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AMD EPYC 7643 (Milan) processors for compute
- 2.3 GHz
- 48 cores per processor
- Computer Server Specifications
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24 Dell XE8545 servers
- Accelerator Specifications
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4 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB memory each, supercharged by NVIDIA NVLink
- Number of Accelerator Nodes
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24 total
- Total Memory
- ~ 24 TB
- Physical Memory Per Node
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1 TB
- Physical Memory Per Core
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10.6 GB
- Interconnect
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Mellanox/NVIDA 200 Gbps HDR InfiniBand​