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Raad2 is our flagship system procured jointly with our partner QCRI in 2016.
It runs on Cray Linux (an optimized derivative of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and employs SLURM as its workload manager.
Raad2
HPC Vendor
Cray (now HPE)
System Model
XC40
Interconnect Technology
Aries
Interconnect Topology
Dragonfly
Number of Nodes
192
CPU Cores per Node
24
RAM per Node
128 GB
Total CPU Cores
4128 (Intel Xeon Haswell)
Peak Performance
120+ TFLOPS (Linpack)
Storage Model
DDN - ExaScaler 7990X
Parallel Filesystem
Lustre
Storage Network
FDR Infiniband: 56 GB/s
Peak Read Bandwidth: 16 GB/s
Peak Read Bandwidth: 16 GB/s
Aggregate System Disk
800 TB
Raad2 also has eight V100 Nvidia GPUs housed in four external nodes integrated into the rest of the system via the FDR Infiniband network.
We call this separate system: Raad2-gfx
Raad2-gfx
GPUs model
NVIDIA V100
Number of GPUs
8