Supercomputing
Meharry hosts a supercomputer Symmetric ADA in the School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS) to meet GPU supercomputing needs of the community. ADA is a hybrid supercomputer consisting of a large memory head node and five compute nodes, each with eight AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 GPUs. In total it contains 448 AMD EPYC processor cores (896 threads), 40 MI50 GPUs and 4TB of globally shared memory, which are connected with highspeed 200 Gb/s Mellanox InfiniBand.
Under the support of a NSF MRI grant, Meharry also acquired a Symmetric CPU supercomputer, ADA Midframe, to enable large-scale memory and CPU-intensive genomics studies and other vital supercomputing needs. The ADA Midframe is a cluster of six nodes with totally 768 cores. Each node contains:
• 2U Chassis 2200W dual PS 12 bay 3.5” 2 1GigE MLAN IPMI SAS/SATA3 M.2
• Two AMD EPYC 7702 datacenter processors (2.0|3.35 GHz) 64 core
• 3200 MHz ECC/Reg DDR4 LRDIMM memory (4TB for head node, 1TB for worker)
In addition, a $1M fund that Congressman Jim Cooper donated to SACS will be used to procure a powerful DELL computer cluster. Together these supercomputers provide greater versatility and superior performance to support the diverse computing needs at Meharry.
SERVICES PROVIDED
• GPU Supercomputing
• CPU Supercomputing
• Training on High Performance Computing
