SDSC Expanse GPU
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Resource Type: Compute
User Guide: https://www.sdsc.edu/support/user_guides/expanse.html
Recommended Use: GPUs are a specialized resource that performs well for certain classes of algorithms and applications. Recommend to be used for accelerating simulation codes optimized to take advantage of GPUs (using CUDA, OpenACC). There is a large and growing base of community codes that have been optimized for GPUs including those in molecular dynamics, and machine learning. GPU-enabled applications on Expanse will include: AMBER, Gromacs, BEAST, OpenMM, NAMD, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
Latitude: 32.88460573867335
Longitude: -117.23917171045235
Production Dates: 10/01/2020 - 10/01/2025
Public URL: https://www.sdsc.edu/support/user_guides/expanse.html
Description: Expanse is a Dell integrated compute cluster, with AMD Rome processors, NVIDIA V100 GPUs, interconnected with Mellanox HDR InfiniBand in a hybrid fat-tree topology. The GPU component of Expanse features 52 GPU nodes, each containing four NVIDIA V100s (32 GB SMX2), connected via NVLINK, and dual 20-core Intel Xeon 6248 CPUs. They feature 1.6TB of NVMe storage and 256GB of DRAM per node. There is HDR100 connectivity to each node. The system also features 12PB of Lustre based performance storage (140GB/s aggregate), and 7PB of Ceph based object storage.