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GP3 (Waterloo)

Introduction

GP3 system evaluation is not yet completed (as of early November 2016). Anticipated specifications, based on Waterloo's RFP and bids received, include the following. This information is NOT GUARANTEED and might not be complete. It is provided for planning purposes.

The parallel filesystem, interconnects and external persistent storage (NDC-Waterloo) will be the same as GP2. There is a slightly different mix of compute nodes. See next section for details.

Node types and characteristics

"Base" compute nodes	Over 500 nodes	128 GB of memory each
"Large" compute nodes	Over 100 nodes	256 GB of memory each
"Bigmem512" nodes	TBD	512 GB of memory each
"Bigmem3000" nodes	TBD	3 TB of memory each

All of the above nodes will have local (on-node) storage.

Compute Canada is not currently able to disclose the specific CPU model or specifications.

GP3 will have GPU's, but Compute Canada is not currently able to disclose specific details. The RFP used NVIDIA K80 as a baseline specification.

The total GP3 system is anticipated to have over 25,000 cores.

The delivery and installation schedule is not yet known.

Name

For naming details of the new systems see Migration2016:New_System_Names.