The well-known high-performance computing company Cray announced that the CS500 series cluster supercomputer will join the AMD EPYC 7000 series processor this summer, and emphasizes the excellent scalability.
Each node of the CS500 cluster is a compact two-socket server. Up to two flagship EPYC 7601s can be installed, each with 64 cores, which is a total of 128 cores.
The entire cluster can be expanded to 11,000 nodes at most. If you use EPYC 7601, that is more than 1.4 million cores that are terrifying!
At the same time, each node supports two PCI-E 3.0 x16 expansion slots, eight DDR4 memory slots and various HDD/SSD storage. Each four nodes form a 2U cabinet.
more importantly, Cray has optimized support for AMD EPYC in software programming environment and library, and it can achieve maximum performance.
Due to the absence of servers, data centers, and high-performance computing all year round, software optimization is undoubtedly crucial to EPYC.
In addition, For memory-intensive workloads, Cray also offers a 2U dual-node system with the same optional AMD EPYC processor. Each processor can be used with 16 memories. Each node has a maximum memory capacity of 4TB.
The Cray CS500 cluster supercomputer for the AMD EPYC server will be available this summer, with specific configurations, and the price will be announced at that time.
