Virtual tour of supercomputer building

[pc1966]

A friend sent me theses links to a 3D shot of inside the Edinburgh University high performance computing centre. This is a few from the most recent completed building, there is another building I think that is in construction just now.

PC - ARCHER2

Virtual Tour | Final ARCHER2 tour | 001 0-pano-edited

kuula.co

PC - ARCHER2

Virtual Tour | Final ARCHER2 tour | 001 0-pano-edited

kuula.co

The 2nd link shows one of the cabinets open with the cooling pipes, and in the opposite direction one of the panels feeding that set of racks with 8 * 125A switched-fuses distributing power.

 

[Mikegh]

How much power are these things using ?

 

[pc1966]

How much power are these things using ?

Max is about 3.5MW. Lots of details in this paper including how they fiddled with BIOS and other setting to take average down to about 2.5MW. Not sure if that covers the A/C power as well, that could be another 25% or so:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05440.pdf

I bet that made a big different to their electricity bill!

 

[Mikegh]

I was using the word power loosely i think
Power is delivered not used afaik

 

[Dan]

A friend sent me theses links to a 3D shot of inside the Edinburgh University high performance computing centre. This is a few from the most recent completed building, there is another building I think that is in construction just now.

PC - ARCHER2

Virtual Tour | Final ARCHER2 tour | 001 0-pano-edited

kuula.co

PC - ARCHER2

Virtual Tour | Final ARCHER2 tour | 001 0-pano-edited

kuula.co

The 2nd link shows one of the cabinets open with the cooling pipes, and in the opposite direction one of the panels feeding that set of racks with 8 * 125A switched-fuses distributing power.

Wow this is my kinda thread.

My old server had logins for their cameras which I watched enough to convince myself it's on a loop lol

That computer there though is going to be the type we all bow down too in a couple of generations time.

Nice but scary!

 

[nicebutdim]

I was using the word power loosely i think
Power is delivered not used afaik

You were fairly accurate the first time. Power is consumed - transfered and consumed - current is drawn.

 

[Mikegh]

Delivered , transfered, used , consumed

 

[pc1966]

Nice but scary!

It has some advantages for those who work there, my fried has 2PB free space in his home directory!

Yes, that is petabytes, so 1024 * TB (or less, if you are disk drive maker when you use 1000 multiples instead of 2^10 as computer folks do).

 

[Dan]

Yeah I think we throw away the 12's and 24's now don't we?