Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences (ACES) is a NSF-Category II-funded test bed (award number 2112356) that offers state of the art GPUs and other novel accelerators in a composable environment. The ACES innovative composable hardware platform helps accelerate transformative changes in research areas that can leverage novel accelerators for analytics and computing. The test bed enables researchers to creatively develop new programming models and workflows that utilize these architectures while simultaneously advancing HPC (High Performance Computing) and data science projects.
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ACES is a Dell cluster with a rich accelerator testbed consisting of Intel Max GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), Intel FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), NVIDIA H100 and A30 GPUs, NEC Vector Engines, NextSilicon co-processors, Graphcore IPUs (Intelligence Processing Units). The ACES cluster consists of compute nodes using a mix of the following processors:
Intel Xeon 8468 Sapphire Rapids processors
Intel Xeon Ice Lake 8352Y processors
Intel Xeon Cascade Lake 8268 processors
AMD Epyc Rome 7742 processors
The compute nodes are interconnected with NVIDIA NDR200 connections for MPI and access to the Lustre storage. The Intel Optane SSDs and all accelerators (except the Graphcore IPUs and NEC Vector Engines) are accessed using Liqid's composable infrustructre via PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect express) Gen4 and Gen5 fabrics.
