Case Study
Architecting for Mixed Workloads at Massive Scale
San Diego Supercomputer Center’s ‘Expanse’ supercomputer shows the way to optimal system balance. Architecting for Mixed Workloads at Massive Scale Scientific Research | United States Solutions at a glance Business needs The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego needs to bring balanced high performance computing resources to tens of thousands of academic- and industry-based researchers from across the United States. • Dell EMCTM PowerEdgeTM servers – NVIDIA ® GPU accelerators – AMD EPYCTM processors • Mellanox ® HDR InfiniBand 50,000 users The Expanse supercomputer is expected to serve more than • Making HPC accessible to tens of thousands of users • Supporting widely diverse workloads in a single HPC environment • Accelerating scientifi