Intel has finally unveiled the full specifications of the Aurora supercomputer designed for the Argonne National Laboratory in the US.
Intel Delivers Over 10,000 Blades Featuring Its Next-Gen Xeon & Data Center GPUs To Power The Aurora Supercomputer
The Intel Aurora Supercomputer has been delayed for a long time but it's finally coming to shape.
Powered by Intel's Xeon CPU Max and Xeon GPU Max series, the system has been upgraded to a two Exaflop machine compared to its 1 Exaflop initial target.
This will bring it on par with the AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer which is currently the fastest on the planet.
In the latest disclosure, Intel revealed that the Aurora supercomputer will be packing a total of 10,624 Nodes which include a mammoth 21,248 Xeon CPUs based on the Sapphire Rapids-SP family and 63,744 GPUs based on the Ponte Vecchio design.
This system will be a beast with an insane fabric interconnect that offers a peak injection bandwidth of 2.12 PB/s & a peak bisection bandwidth of 0.69 PB/s.
For memory, the Aurora supercomputer is outfitted with 10.9 PB of DDR5 system DRAM, 1.36 PB of HBM capacity through the CPUs, and 8.16 PB of HBM capacity through the GPUs.
The system DRAM achieves a peak bandwidth of 5.95 PB/s, the CPU HBM achieves a peak bandwidth of 30.5 PB/s and the GPU HBM achieves a peak bandwidth of 208.9 PB/s.
For storage, the system is equipped with a 230 PB DAOS capacity that runs at a peak bandwidth of 31 TB/s & is configured in a total of 1024 nodes.