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What is inside a real supercomputer?

Eleanor Broadway

Created on September 12, 2022

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What is inside a real

supercomputer?

This is a picture of the UK's national supercomputer - ARCHER2! ARCHER2 is made up of 23 cabinets (similar in height and width to a traditional phone box) each containing a series of "drawers" called blades. This diagram is showing a node card. On each ARCHER2 blade we have two node cards so what you are actually seeing is half of an ARCHER2 blade! Click around to discover what each part does...

ARCHER2 STATS

23

cabinets

5,860

nodes

128

cores Per Node

750,050

total cores

What makes a supercomputer super? If you can think of each node as an individual computer, you can think of a supercomputer as a lot of computers all collaborating to solve a problem. But how do they communicate? The thing that really makes a supercomputer “super” is the interconnect. This connects all of the nodes together and lets them communicate at a very high speed. On ARCHER2 we have a HPE Cray Slingshot, 2× 100 Gbps bi-directional per node,