Aurora node architecture
Aurora is operated by Argonne National Laboratory in United States. This profile covers the documented compute inventory.
Cluster interconnect: HPE Slingshot 11 · 200 Gb/s per endpoint. Topology: Dragonfly.
GPU Max compute
- Node count
- 10624
- CPU
- Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 · 52 cores
- CPUs per node
- 2
- Accelerator
- Intel Data Center GPU Max
- Physical accelerators per node
- 6
- Host / unified memory
- 1,024 GB DDR5 + 128 GB CPU HBM
- Accelerator memory
- 128 GB HBM per GPU
- Local accelerator links
- Xe Link
- CPU-to-accelerator link
- PCIe
- Storage
- Not verified
Scope and uncertainty
Six physical GPUs per node, each with two tiles. On-node links are summarized; not an exact PCIe switch map.
Not verified means a detail has not been confirmed in this catalog. Diagrams are schematic; node indices are illustrative, not physical hostnames. Data checked 13 September 2026.
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