ClusterMax® Apex
HPC Cluster Solution for CPU-Intensive, Large Scale Deployments
The ClusterMax® Apex Supercomputer Cluster is ideal for large-scale deployments that integrate the latest CPU-based computing technologies and require extreme performance and high-density computing. These clusters incorporate the latest 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Family or the latest AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processors, doubling the compute density 42U standard rack cabinet, compared with traditional rack mounted servers.
Future Proof System With Massive Scalability For Large Scale Deployments
The ClusterMax® Apex Supercomputer Cluster offers customers performance scalability, industry leading density and maximum efficiency at scale for applications ranging from in-memory databases, to a diverse set of data and compute-intensive HPC applications.
Key Features:
- High density balanced compute solution for large scale power conscious users.
- Based on the latest Intel or AMD processor microarchitecture for best in class performance.
- Integrated web based cluster management for turnkey provisioning and hassle free management.
- Optimized MPI implementations and pre tuned networking components to get parallel application up and running.
- Highly scalable, modular architecture with EDR/HDR Infiniband and PCIe Gen 4.0 support
Applications:
- Artificial intelligence / deep learning / machine learning
- Bio-chemical / Biotechnology / Life Sciences
- Cloud computing
- Computational grid endpoint
- Computer-aided engineering (CAE)
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Data mining and stream processing
- Electronic design automation (EDA)
- Financial market modeling
- HPC applications
- Petro-clusters / oil & gas
- Server consolidation
- Scientific research
- Simulations
- Visualization / rendering modeling
- Web hosting
Cluster Specifications
- Up to 72 nodes with 3nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Family or AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processors
- Great serviceability with hot-pluggable processor nodes and hot-pluggable PSU
- High speed interconnect with EDR/HDR Infiniband, Fibre channel, and Ethernet (Gigabit, 10GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE) options
- Dedicated on-board management port, providing a flexible and secure management environment
Cluster Features
- Delivers high availability, scalability, flexibility and power efficiency in a dense cluster architecture
- Improves RAS with hot-swappable and redundant fans, and hard disk drives
- Addresses today’s natural business growth of mid to large-sized HPC and high-density computing
- Lowest TCO for support, maintenance and upgradeability
- Ideal for mid to large data centers scaling up to 1,000 nodes
Complete Cluster Assembly and Set Up Services
- Fully integrated and pre-packaged turnkey HPC solution, including HPC professional services and support, expert installation and setup of rack-optimized cluster nodes, cabling, rails, and other peripherals
- Configuration of cluster nodes and the network
- Installation of applications and client computers to offer a comprehensive solution for your IT needs
- Rapid deployment
- Server management options include Standards-based IPMI or AMAX remote server management
- Seamless standard and custom application integration and cluster installation
- Cluster management options include a choice of open source software solutions
- Firmware upgrades & BIOS modification
- Supports a variety of UPS and PDU configuration and interconnect options, including Infiniband (EDR/HDR), Fibre channel, and Ethernet (Gigabit, 10GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE)
Rack Level Verification
- Performance and Benchmark Testing (HPL)
- ATA rack level stress test
- Rack Level Serviceability
- Ease of Deployment Review
- MPI jobs over IB for HPC
- GPU stress test using CUDA
- Cluster management
Large Scale Rack Deployment Review
- Scalability Process
- Rack to Rack Connectivity
- Multi-Cluster Testing
- Software/Application Load
- Cluster management
Optional Cluster System Software Installed
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Bright Computing Cluster Manager
- SuSE / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- C-based software development tools, CUDA 10.x Toolkit and SDK, and various libraries for CPU GPU clusters
| ClusterMax® Apex Intel Platform Configuration | ClusterMax® Apex AMD Platform Configuration | |
| Total Node Count | Up to 72 nodes per 42U cluster | Up to 72 nodes per 42U cluster |
| Processor per Node | 2x 3nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors series per node | 2x 64-core AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processors per node |
| Memory per Node | 16x DDR4 DIMM slots | 16x DDR4 DIMM slots |
| Networking per Node |
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| Management per Node | Flexible networking options | Flexible networking options |
| System Enclosure Form Factor | 2U | 2U |
| Nodes per enclosure | 4 | 4 |
| Enclosures per rack | 18 | 18 |
| Drive Bays per Node | 12x 3.5″ or 24x 2.5” SAS/SATA/SSD/ Drives | 24x 2.5″ hot-swappable HDD bays per 2U chassis (6x drives per node), with:
1x M.2 slot per node |
| Network Configuration | 1U 36 EDR/HDR InfiniBand ports switch & 1U 52-Port 10GBase-T Stackable managed switch | 1U 40 HDR InfiniBand ports switch & 1U 52-Port 10GBase-T Stackable managed switch |
Software Options
Bright Cluster Manager software automates the process of building and managing modern high-performance Linux clusters, eliminating complexity and enabling flexibility.
NVMesh enables shared NVMe across any network and supports any local or distributed file system. The solution features an intelligent management layer that abstracts underlying hardware with CPU offload, creates logical volumes with redundancy, and provides centralized, intelligent management and monitoring.
QuantaStor’s unique Storage Grid architecture organizations are able to manage multiple clusters across sites as a unified storage platform that’s easily configured and maintained through the web user interface and automated via advanced CLI and REST APIs
Enabling data centers to easily transform themselves into a flexible cloud infrastructure with the performance and reliability needed to run enterprise applications.