Facilities

 

UNNC CSAI LAB now has adequate AI facilities to support current and new programs in School of Computer Science, majorly in Artificial Intelligence programs and modules due to a large growth in student numbers. We focused to provide fast and latest technology not only for our CSAI modules but also to support interdisciplinary student-led projects, student internships and student society modules.

UNNC CSAI LAB contains 10 DELL Precision7920 workstations each carried with 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4108 and 2 Nvidia 2080Ti, in addition, by cooperating with UNNC IT Services and HUAWEI CHINA, we have implemented 6 HUAWEI 2288H_v5 rack server into our UNNC HPC platform each carried with 2 Intel Xeon Gold 5120 and 4 Nvidia Tesla v100

 

 

 

 

The HPC facility, which can be termed a “Super Computer”, but rather than being a single machine, is a high-performance computing cluster comprised of many standard components (e.g. high specification computer servers) networked together by high performance interconnect, and with the necessary software to make it capable of performing extensive calculations, involving hundreds of computing cores, and several terabytes (TB) of computer memory.

The hardware making up the main cluster includes: 

• 8 compute nodes, each with 2x 14 core processors (Intel Xeon E5-2680 2.4GHz), 128GB RAM, and 600GB local disk. 
• 2 compute nodes, each with 2x 8 core processors (Intel Xeon E5-2667 3.2GHz ), 256GB RAM, 600GB local disk, and 2x Tesla M60 GPGPU accelerators.
• 4 shelves of Panasas PAS12 object-based, parallel storage, offering 240TB raw, 180TB formatted disk space, available from login nodes and compute nodes.
• 1Gb Ethernet network used for general end-user communication.
• 56Gb bandwidth​ InfiniBand Quad data-rate (QDR) network used for MPI (“message-passing-interface”) data, and storage traffic.

This cluster, therefore, provides a total of 276 CPU compute cores and is capable of running at over 11 teraFLOPS - that is 11 trillion or 11 million million calculations per second).