UFIT Announces Timeline for HiPerGator 3.0
UFIT Research Computing has issued an end-of-semester update on the build of HiPerGator 3.0. The first 12 (of a total of 44) racks for HiPerGator AI, the NVIDIA DGX A100 SuperPOD, have arrived. The remaining 32 racks will arrive this month. Staff from Lenovo and NVIDIA are working with UFIT to complete the installation and configuration of this extremely complex system. HiPerGator 3.0 will be available in May 2021.
Additional Updates
- HiPerGator 1.0: 2013 – 16,000 AMD cores – 4 GB RAM/core (will retire in May 2021)
- HiPerGator 2.0: 2015 – 30,000 Intel cores – 4 GB RAM/core
- HiPerGator 3.0: Dec. 2019 – 608 new Nvidia RTX 2080ti and RTX 6000 GPUs
- HiPerGator 3.0: Jun. 2020 – 4 PetaByte new “blue” fast storage
- HiPerGator 3.0: Jan. 2021 – 30,720 AMD EPYC Rome 2.0 GHz cores – 8 GB RAM/core
- HiPerGator AI: Jan. 2021
- 140 Nvidia DGX A100 nodes
- 17,920 AMD 7742 2.25 GHz “Rome” cores w. 8 GB RAM per core
- 1,120 Nvidia “Ampere” A100 GPUs
- 4 PetaByte all-flash DDN A3I AI400 storage
- Double precision Linpack (HPL) 13.75 Petaflops = 13.75 M x 1 B ops/sec
- AI floating point operations 0.7 Exaflops = 0.7 B x 1 B ops/sec
With 69,424 cores, HiPerGator is one of the most powerful supercomputing environments in US higher education. Bookmark UFIT News to keep up with the latest updates about HiPerGator and AI infrastructure at UF.
