From its more than 60,000 cores to a highly power-efficient data center, Cedar is turning heads in computational research, AI, and local business Simon Fraser University’s Cedar HPC Cluster Makes Large Impact in British Columbia High Performance Computing (HPC) With Intel® Omni-Path Architecture Cedar highlights: • Phase 1: 902 nodes of 2x Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2683A (launched April 2017) • Phase 2: 640 nodes of 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 processor (launched April 2018) • Intel® Omni-Path Architecture fabric • Supports traditional research computing, OpenStack* cloud, and Singularity* containers Executive Summary British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) was overdue for an HPC upgrade. In early 2017, the university installed Cedar, a 902-node dual-socket cluste

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