Thunder Prime Cluster

Thunder Prime Cluster hardware specifications.

The Thunder Prime cluster (often referred to as “Prime”) is comprised of 84 AMD EPYC nodes in 64-, 128-, and 192-core configurations. In total, Prime contains 9,444 CPU cores, 45 TB aggregate memory (RAM), 95 Nvidia GPUs, and a 2.2 PB GPFS parallel filesystem.

Hardware Specs

Specifications and quantities are shown separately for compute nodes and GPUs.

Compute Nodes

Thunder Prime compute node specifications*
Quantity Type CPU cores Memory Architecture
22 Rome 64-core compute 64 256 GB 1x 64-core AMD EPYC 7662 CPU @ 2.0 GHz
16 Rome 128-core compute 128 512 GB 2x 64-core AMD EPYC 7662 CPU @ 2.0 GHz
8 Rome 128-core large memory 128 1 TB 2x 64-core AMD EPYC 7662 CPU @ 2.0 GHz
1 Milan 64-core compute 64 256 GB 1x 64-core AMD EPYC 7713 CPU @ 2.0 GHz
34 Milan 128-core compute 128 512 GB 2x 64-core AMD EPYC 7713 CPU @ 2.0 GHz
1 Genoa 128-core compute 128 768 GB 2x 64-core AMD EPYC 9534 CPU @ 2.5 GHz
2 Genoa 192-core compute 192 768 GB 2x 96-core AMD EPYC 9654 CPU @ 2.4 GHz

GPUs

Thunder Prime GPU specifications*
Quantity Type Memory
4 Nvidia H100 96 GB
4 Nvidia L40S 48 GB
24 Nvidia L4 24 GB
10 Nvidia A100 (Gen 1) 40 GB
1 Nvidia A100 (Gen 2) 80 GB
12 Nvidia A40 48 GB
32 Nvidia A10 24 GB
8 Tesla P100 16GB

*Note: Some resources may belong to faculty-owned condo units, and are only accessible to general users via the preemptible queue.



Keywords:
CCAST, Thunder Prime, High-Performance Computing, CPU cores, GPUs, Supercomputing, Supercomputer 
Doc ID:
128284
Owned by:
Nick D. in NDSU IT Knowledge Base
Created:
2023-05-15
Updated:
2025-01-31
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