System Overview
The Earth Simulator (ES4) is a multi-architecture supercomputer based on AMD EPYC CPUs, combined with accelerators (NEC's SX-Aurora TSUBASA and NVIDIA's GPU A100).
Earth Simulator total performance
| Earth Simulator total performance | |
|---|---|
| Total Peak Performance | 19.5 PFLOPS |
| Total Memory | 556.5 TiB |
| Shared Storage Capacity | Home area：120 TB |
| Data area： 60 PB | |
| Work area： 1.3 PB | |
| Interconnect Bandwidth | 200 Gb/s （for two-way） |
Details of the Earth Simulator (ES4)
Compute Nodes Overview
| Node Type | CPU Nodes | VE-equipped Nodes | GPU-equipped Nodes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Node | 720 | 684 | 8 | |
| Per Node | CPU Name | AMD EPYC 7742 | ||
| Number of CPUs (Cores) | 2(128) | 1(64) | 2(128) | |
| OS | Rocky Linux 8 | |||
| Total memory (Host Part) | 256GiB | 128GiB | 4TiB | |
| Acceralator Type | - | NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Type 20B |
NVIDIA A100 | |
| Number of Acceralators | - | 8VE (8 cores per VE) |
8 GPU | |
| Total memory (Accelerator) | - | 48GiB | 40GiB | |