Technical Specifications

The following are technical specifications for Ascend:  

  Ascend SYSTEM (2022)
NUMBER OF NODES 24 nodes
NUMBER OF CPU SOCKETS 48 (2 sockets/node)
NUMBER OF CPU CORES 2,304 (96 cores/node)
CORES PER NODE 96 cores/node (88 usable cores/node)
Internal storage

12.8 TB NVMe internal storage

COMPUTE CPU SPECIFICATIONS

AMD EPYC 7643 (Milan) processors for compute

  • 2.3 GHz 
  • 48 cores per processor
COMPUTER SERVER SPECIFICATIONS

24 Dell XE8545 servers

ACCELERATOR SPECIFICATIONS

4 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB memory each, supercharged by NVIDIA NVLink

NUMBER OF ACCELERATOR NODES

24 total

TOTAL MEMORY ~ 24 TB
PHYSICAL MEMORY PER NODE

1 TB

PHYSICAL MEMORY PER CORE 10.6 GB
INTERCONNECT 

Mellanox/NVIDA 200 Gbps HDR InfiniBand​

 

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