Dawn - Intel GPU (PVC) Nodes

These new nodes entered Early Access service in January 2024

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Welcome to DAWN

DAWN is a powerful and user-friendly platform designed to streamline research collaboration and resource management. It enables Principal Investigators (PIs) and team members to efficiently manage projects, allocate resources, and collaborate seamlessly.

This documentation provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the system, understanding its features, and utilizing its full capabilities. Whether you’re a new user or an experienced researcher, this guide will help you get started and maximize the platform’s potential.

Hardware

The Dawn (PVC) nodes are:

  • 256 Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers

each consisting of:

  • 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8468 (formerly codenamed Sapphire Rapids) (96 cores in total)
  • 1024 GiB RAM
  • 4x Intel(R) Data Center GPU Max 1550 GPUs (formerly codenamed Ponte Vecchio) (128 GiB GPU RAM each)
  • Xe-Link 4-way GPU interconnect within the node
  • Quad-rail NVIDIA (Mellanox) HDR200 InfiniBand interconnect

and each PVC GPU contains two stacks (previously known as tiles) and 1024 compute units.