BlackDiamond is a high-performance computing cluster made possible by a gift from microchip manufacturer AMD. This cluster is built using AMD’s 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor, which pushes the boundaries for x86 performance, efficiency, security features, and overall system throughput, and AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI50 Accelerators for GPU acceleration of research.
Hardware
6 nodes, each with:
- 1 AMD EPYC 7642 48-core processor
- 8 AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 Accelerators (32GB)
- 512GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM
- 100Gb/s HDR Infiniband links to a QM8700 switch