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The are four complexes, Atos HPCF consists of four virtually identical complexes: AA, AB, AC and AD. All togetherIn total, this HPCF features 7488 nodesfeatures 8128 nodes:

  • 70207680 compute nodes, for parallel jobs
  • 448 GPIL (General Purpose and Interactive Login) nodes, which are devised to integrate the interactive and post-processing work that coming from older platforms such as the Cray HPCF, ECGATE and Linux Clusters.

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The logic structure of one of the complexes would be is as follows:

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Main differences with the previous Cray XC40 system

The most notorious notable change in with respect to the previous  is on Cray XC40 HPCF is in the processor architecture, from Intel to AMD. Although both implement the x86_64 instruction set,   the latter has many more cores. 


Cray (CCA/CCB)Atos HPC2020 (AA/AB/AC/AD)
CPU ArchitectureIntel BroadwellAMD EPYC Rome

Core Frequency

2.1 GHz2.5 GHz (GPIL) / 2.25 GHz (compute)
Cores per node (HT)36 (72)128 (256)
Memory per node128 GiB512 GiB (GPIL) / 256 GiB (compute)
Fabric interconnectCray AriesMellanox HDR Infiniband InfiniBand -  100 100 Gbps (GPIL) / 200 Gbps (compute)
Operating SystemBased on SLES 11Based on RHEL 8
Batch systemPBS with ALPSSLURM
Parallel FilesystemLustreLustre
CompilersCray, GNU, IntelGNU, Intel, AOCC
MPICray MPICHIntel MPI, OpenMPI

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