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Expanse

San Diego Supercomputer Center

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Expanse node architecture

Expanse is operated by San Diego Supercomputer Center in United States. This profile covers Standard CPU and GPU partitions. Specifications are listed below; anything the operator has not published is itemised in the documented-fields list.

Cluster · Standard CPU

Operator / site
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Country
United States
Profile scope
Standard CPU and GPU partitions
Data checked
14 September 2026
Operating system
Rocky Linux
Network topology
Hybrid fat-tree

Standard CPU

Compute nodes of this type
728
CPU model
AMD EPYC 7742 · 64 cores
CPU sockets per node
2
Cores per socket
64
Physical CPU cores
128
Host / unified memory
256 GB DRAM
Interface speed
100 Gb/s (HDR100 to compute nodes)
Local storage
1 TB NVMe
Form factor
13 SDSC Scalable Compute Units

V100 GPU

Compute nodes of this type
52
CPU model
Intel Xeon Gold 6248 · 20 cores
CPU sockets per node
2
Cores per socket
20
Physical CPU cores
40
Accelerator model
NVIDIA V100
Physical accelerators per node
4
Host / unified memory
384 GB DRAM
Accelerator memory
32 GB per GPU
Accelerator ↔ accelerator link
NVLink
Interface speed
100 Gb/s (HDR100 to compute nodes)
Local storage
1.6 TB NVMe

Scope and uncertainty

Standard CPU and GPU partitions only. Four large-memory nodes are excluded from this profile pending detailed verification.

Documented fields: 23 / 40

Every field this catalog checks. Fields listed above have a value; the remainder are shown here. A field marked absent is not publicly available in the sources we could verify, which does not mean the hardware is missing. Fields that cannot apply, such as benchmark results for an unranked system, are excluded from the total.

Cluster — 2 / 3

  • Manufacturer
  • Ranked core count
  • Theoretical peak (PFlop/s)
  • Measured power (kW)
  • Energy efficiency (GFlop/s per watt)
  • Operating system
  • Network topology

Standard CPU — 9 / 15

  • System / node model
  • Compute nodes of this type
  • CPU model
  • CPU sockets per node
  • Cores per socket
  • Physical CPU cores
  • CPU note
  • Accelerator model
  • Physical accelerators per node
  • Host / unified memory
  • Accelerator memory
  • Accelerator ↔ accelerator link
  • On-node fabric
  • CPU ↔ accelerator link
  • Network interfaces per node
  • Interface model
  • Interface speed
  • Interface-to-accelerator topology
  • Aggregate scale-out per node
  • GPUDirect RDMA
  • Management / storage networking
  • Local storage
  • NVMe data disks
  • Max remote data disks
  • Uncached disk IOPS
  • Uncached disk throughput (MBps)
  • Form factor

V100 GPU — 12 / 22

  • System / node model
  • Compute nodes of this type
  • CPU model
  • CPU sockets per node
  • Cores per socket
  • Physical CPU cores
  • CPU note
  • Accelerator model
  • Physical accelerators per node
  • Host / unified memory
  • Accelerator memory
  • Accelerator ↔ accelerator link
  • On-node fabric
  • CPU ↔ accelerator link
  • Network interfaces per node
  • Interface model
  • Interface speed
  • Interface-to-accelerator topology
  • Aggregate scale-out per node
  • GPUDirect RDMA
  • Management / storage networking
  • Local storage
  • NVMe data disks
  • Max remote data disks
  • Uncached disk IOPS
  • Uncached disk throughput (MBps)
  • Form factor

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