The following are technical specifications for Ascend.
- 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
- 
	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 
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