System Technical Specifications
Hardware Details for MidwaySSD
Cluster
21 Cascade Lake nodes
Each node has the following base :
- 2x Intel Xeon Gold with a clock frequency of 6248R (40 cores per node)
- 192 GB of conventional memory per node
- 960 GB SSD local disk
- HDR Infiniband (100 Gbps) network card
Storage
Distributed file system storage: 400 TB of high performance GPFS storage
Network
HDR (100 Gbps) Infiniband fabric between nodes and with the storage appliance in a fat tree network topology
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