Alpha hardware

Created by Robert Harrison, Modified on Mon, 13 Jan at 10:11 AM by Robert Harrison

Empire AI: Alpha Hardware Specifications


13 HGX Nodes

  • 8 H100 80GB GPUs per node

  • 10 400Gb/s ConnectX-7 NIC Cards (8 for IB and 2 for Ethernet)

  • 30TB NVMe caching space

  • 2TB of system memory

  • 12 of the nodes serve as the main computational platform

  • The 13th node is primarily to serve development, testing, etc.


Non-blocking NDR fabric cabled for rail configuration

  • 8 network switches, 96 optical connections


4 service nodes

  • 2 login nodes and 2 cluster management nodes (NVIDIA Base Command with licenses for all gear)


2 data transfer nodes


2PB of DDN Storage

  • 4 x 720TB Flash storage (training data, snap shots)



2PB of VAST Storage

  • home directories



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