The Cannon cluster at FASRC is comprised of more than 30,000 second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor cores and included Lenovo's Neptune cooling technology.
The storage system is spread across multiple locations, the primary computer is housed in the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Centre.
A statement from Lenovo said the Cannon cluster included 670 Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650 servers featuring Lenovo Neptune direct-to-node water-cooling, and Intel Xeon Platinum 8268 processors consisting of 24 cores per socket and 48 cores per node.
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The Cannon cluster at Harvard University. Courtesy Lenovo
“Science is all about iteration and repeatability. But iteration is a luxury that is not always possible in the field of university research because you are often working against the clock to meet a deadline,” said Scott Yockel, director of research computing at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
“With the increased compute performance and faster processing of the Cannon cluster, our researchers now have the opportunity to try something in their data experiment, fail, and try again. Allowing failure to be an option makes our researchers more competitive.”
“Working with Intel we are now bringing together some of the biggest names and brightest minds of HPC to develop an innovation roadmap that will push the design and dissemination of exascale technologies to users of all sizes,” said Scott Tease, general manager for HPC and AI, Lenovo Data Centre Group.
“Intel is proud to be an integral part of this important endeavor in supercomputing along with Lenovo and other leaders in HPC,” said Trish Damkroger, vice-president and general manager of the Extreme Computing Organisation at Intel.
"With Project Everyscale, our goal is to democratise exascale technologies and bring leading Xeon scalable processors, accelerators, storage, fabrics, software and more to HPC customers of every scale or any workload.”
