About ASPIRE2A+
ASPIRE2A+ Supercomputer is powered by an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ system consisting of 40 DGX H100 nodes. It is an Al powerhouse that features the groundbreaking NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU. It comes with a high-performance parallel file systems solution that provides 2.5 PB usable capacity on NVMe for scratch storage and 27.5 PB usable capacity of home storage on DDN Lustre File storage and NVIDIA InfiniBand high speed interconnect.
| NVIDIA H100 compute node | lustre SSD based STORAGE pools | nvidia infiniband | ||
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| Lustre – 2.5 PB Scratch/Buffer Filesystem
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The NSCC HPC system comprises of the following:
ASPIRE2A+
- NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ system is an Al powerhouse that features the groundbreaking NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
- It consists of 40 DGX H100 compute nodes and each node has eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs
- Each GPU card has 80GB of Memory (8 x 80 GB = 640 GB)
- Each compute node has Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8480C CPU with 112 cores.
- Please refer this link for more info – https://help.nscc.sg/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ASPIRE2A-General-Quickstart-Guide-1.pdf
Other Features of Aspire2A+
- All compute nodes are connected to Lustre parallel file system.
- Air-cooled racks for storage, login and compute nodes.
- Altair Workload Manager/Scheduler
Technical Specifications
| Compute Node Architecture |  DGX H100 SuperPOD System  NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU |
| Processor | Dual Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8480C Processors |
| Total cores | 2 x 56 cores = 112 Cores |
| Total memory | 2 TB |
| GPUs | NVIDIA H100 GPUs |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand Interconnect |
| Compute performance | 32 petaFLOPS FP8 |
| Storage capacity | 8 x 3.84 TB NVMe drives |