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'''ARCHER''' ('''Advanced Research Computing High End Resource''') is {{\\|HECToR}}'s successor, a [[petascale]] [[x86]] [[supercomputer]] serving as the UK's primary academic research supercomputer. ARCHER begun operations in March 2014 becoming the most powerful system in UK and the 19th most powerful on the [[TOP500]] at the time. ARCHER is expected to be succeeded by {{\\|ARCHER 2}} in 2020. | '''ARCHER''' ('''Advanced Research Computing High End Resource''') is {{\\|HECToR}}'s successor, a [[petascale]] [[x86]] [[supercomputer]] serving as the UK's primary academic research supercomputer. ARCHER begun operations in March 2014 becoming the most powerful system in UK and the 19th most powerful on the [[TOP500]] at the time. ARCHER is expected to be succeeded by {{\\|ARCHER 2}} in 2020. |
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Sponsors | EPSRC |
Designers | Cray |
Operators | EPSRC |
Introduction | March 2014 |
Retired | February 18, 2020 |
Peak FLOPS | 2.551 petaFLOPS |
Price | £43,000,000 |
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ARCHER (Advanced Research Computing High End Resource) is HECToR's successor, a petascale x86 supercomputer serving as the UK's primary academic research supercomputer. ARCHER begun operations in March 2014 becoming the most powerful system in UK and the 19th most powerful on the TOP500 at the time. ARCHER is expected to be succeeded by ARCHER 2 in 2020.
Overview
ARCHER is based on Cray's XC30 MPP supercomputer.
System
Nodes | 4920 |
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CPU | Xeon E5-2697 v2 (12c) @ 2.7 GHz |
Cores | 118,080 |
Peak Performance | 2.551 petaFLOPS (DP) |
Memory
There are 4544 standard memory nodes which have 64 GiB of memory shared between the two CPUs. Additionally, ARCHER features 376 high memory nodes which have 128 GiB of memory.
Standard | High-Memory | ARCHER | |
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Node | 64 GiB | 128 GiB | |
Count | 4544 | 376 | 4920 |
Total | 47 TiB | 284 TiB | 331 TiB |
Interconnect
ARCHER relies on Cray Aries interconnect to interlink all the nodes. ARCHER uses a Dragonfly topology. There are four compute nodes connected per each Aries router, 188 nodes per cabinet, and two cabinets form a group. Groups are connected to each other with all-to-all optical connections. There are a total of 144 optical links per group for a peak system bisection bandwidth of over 19,013 GB/s. The MPI latency on Aries is ~1.3μs with an additional 100ns of latency when communicating over the optical links.
Power
Type | Power |
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System (Zero load) | 400 kW |
System (Full load) | 1,200 kW |
Filesystems | 40 kW |
Research Data Facility (RDF) | 120 kW |
External links
- Official Website https://www.archer.ac.uk/
designer | Cray + |
discontinuation date | February 18, 2020 + |
introductory date | March 2014 + |
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name | ARCHER + |
operator | EPSRC + |
peak flops (double-precision) | 2.551e+15 FLOPS (2,551,000,000,000 KFLOPS, 2,551,000,000 MFLOPS, 2,551,000 GFLOPS, 2,551 TFLOPS, 2.551 PFLOPS, 0.00255 EFLOPS, 2.551e-6 ZFLOPS) + |
release price | $ 53,086,419.75 (€ 47,777,777.78, £ 43,000,000.00, ¥ 5,485,419,753.09) + |
sponsor | EPSRC + |