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Thunder Cluster

Thunder Cluster hardware specifications

The Thunder cluster is comprised of 117 nodes containing multiple generations of Intel CPUs. In total, Thunder contains 3,632 CPU cores, 16 TB aggregate memory (RAM), and 14 Nvidia GPUs. Thunder shares a 2.2 PB parallel filesystem with the Thunder Prime cluster.

Hardware Specs

Thunder Cluster compute node specifications
Quantity Type CPU cores Memory GPUs Architecture
12 Cascade Lake compute 40 192GB 2x 20-core Intel Xeon Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.10GHz
5 Cascade Lake GPU 36 384GB 2x Nvidia RTX 2080 2x 18-core Intel Xeon Gold 5220 CPU @ 2.20GHz
1 Skylake large memory 16 1.5TB 2x 8-core Intel Xeon Gold 6144 CPU @ 3.50GHz
1 Skylake GPU 16 64GB 4x Nvidia Quadro GP100 2x 8-core Intel Xeon Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz
40 Broadwell compute 44 128GB 2x 22-core Intel Xeon CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
1 Sandy Bridge compute 16 64GB 2x 8-core Intel Xeon CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
1 Sandy Bridge large memory 32 1TB 4x 8-core Intel Xeon CPU E5-4640 0 @ 2.40GHz
55 Ivy Bridge compute 20 64GB 2x 10-core Intel Xeon CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
1 Ivy Bridge large memory 32 1TB 4x 8-core Intel Xeon CPU E5-4640 0 @ 2.40GHz


KeywordsCCAST, Thunder, High-Performance Computing, CPU cores, GPUs, Supercomputing, Supercomputer   Doc ID128285
OwnerNick D.GroupIT Knowledge Base
Created2023-05-15 10:54:01Updated2024-02-01 14:12:35
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